Journey by Moonlight

Présentation de l'éditeur Mihaly is anxious to please his father and becomes a partner in the family firm. Haunted by nostalgia for his bohemian youth he escapes and marries Erzsi. The honeymoon is a disaster and ultimately Mihaly and Erzsi are brought face to face with their deepest fears. Revue de presse "Journey by Moonlight is a burning book, a major book" --GEORGE SZIRTES Times Literary Supplement Biographie de l'auteur Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour and understated irony. Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII and The Pendragon Legend, as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle and the history The Queen's Necklace.