"Never off our bestseller list, this radiant novel thoroughly deserves its place here"
London Review Bookshop
"Journey by Moonlight is a burning book, a major book"
GEORGE SZIRTES Times Literary Supplement
"No one who has read it has failed to love it"
"Journey by Moonlight is a burning book, a major book"
GEORGE SZIRTES Times Literary Supplement
"No one who has read it has failed to love it"
NICHOLAS LEZARD The Guardian
"Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century"
"Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century"
PAUL BAILEY Daily Telegraph
"May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive"
ALBERTO MANGUEL Financial Times
"It should be said from the outset that this is a great novel. (...) Journey by Moonlight is an exhilarating comedy. It made me smile, and once or twice I laughed out loud. (...) This book is very erotic in a playful way"
"May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive"
ALBERTO MANGUEL Financial Times
"It should be said from the outset that this is a great novel. (...) Journey by Moonlight is an exhilarating comedy. It made me smile, and once or twice I laughed out loud. (...) This book is very erotic in a playful way"
Daily Telegraph
"Despite the darkness of its themes and the European history that haunts it, Journey by Moonlight manages to be both comic and beautiful"
"Despite the darkness of its themes and the European history that haunts it, Journey by Moonlight manages to be both comic and beautiful"
MEGAN STEPHAN Daily Telegraph
"What is so wonderful about the book is its tone and its grasp of character. (...) There is something almost divine about this -- and that Szerb's great intelligence didn't force him to produce a work of arid perfectionism makes it all the more remarkable"
"What is so wonderful about the book is its tone and its grasp of character. (...) There is something almost divine about this -- and that Szerb's great intelligence didn't force him to produce a work of arid perfectionism makes it all the more remarkable"
NICHOLAS LEZARD The Guardian
"(A) most important document regarding the opinions and literary orientation of the author's generation"
"(A) most important document regarding the opinions and literary orientation of the author's generation"
MIKLOS SZABOLSCI History of Hungarian Literature (1964)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTAL SZERB was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian, and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, 1934, is set in London and Wales. He is also the author of Journey by Moonlight, The Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.
Translated by Len Rix
ABOUT THE BOOK
Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTAL SZERB was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian, and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, 1934, is set in London and Wales. He is also the author of Journey by Moonlight, The Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.
Translated by Len Rix
Cover Illustration: Luca Pagliari
ISBN 978 1 901285 50 5
240pp
