"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
"there is more to it than fable. It actually has much in common with Journey by Moonlight - the flight from identity, the alleys of Venice, the choices that must be made between duty and pleasure, or between two women. And it has its comedy, too"
"May Szerb"s entry into our literary pantheon be definitive"
ALBERTO MANGUEL Financial Times
"there is more to it than fable. It actually has much in common with Journey by Moonlight - the flight from identity, the alleys of Venice, the choices that must be made between duty and pleasure, or between two women. And it has its comedy, too"
NICHOLAS LEZARD The Guardian
ABOUT THE BOOK
THE RESTLESS RULER of an obscure Central European state plots a coup against himself and escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’ experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive levels of illusion and reality teaches him much about the world, about his own nature and the paradoxes of the human condition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTAL SZERB was born into a cultivated family of Jewish descent in 1901. He graduated in German, English and Hungarian, and rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Blake and Ibsen, and Histories of English, Hungarian and World Literature. In 1933 he was elected president of the Hungarian Literary Academy. He was also known as an essayist, playwright and as the author of various novellas and a historical fiction, The Queen’s Necklace. He died in a labour camp in 1945.
TRANSLATED from the Hungarian by Len Rix
Cover Illustration László Moholy-Nagy
ISBN 978 1901285 796
TRANSLATED from the Hungarian by Len Rix
Cover Illustration László Moholy-Nagy
ISBN 978 1901285 796
