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FICTION / Fantasy / General

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.

At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go.

Anxious to please his 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 journey.

Un hombre de letras y doctor en filología, el húngaro János Bátky, de 32 años, se encuentra en Londres en el verano de 1933 estudiando las teorías de los teósofos ingleses del siglo XVII, el ocultismo, la alquimia, la historia de los rosacruces y la vida y obra de Robert Fludd. Su vida fría y ordenada de estudioso se ve sacudida cuando conoce a Owen Pendragon, conde de Gwynedd, un aristócrata quijotesco que lo invita a visitar la biblioteca de...

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Journey by Moonlight is here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott.

Europäische Literatur von Weltformat! «Alles fing an ¿ oder vielmehr, es fing eigentlich überhaupt nie an, denn ich las und schrieb schon immer, fast vom Augenblick meiner Geburt an (ich war die bebrillte Art von Kleinkind) ¿» Kein Wunder also, dass der ungarische Literaturhistoriker, -kritiker und Romancier Antal Szerb (1901¿1945) sich mit Vorliebe in der Bibliothek aufhielt, wo er auch die meisten seiner Texte zu Papier brachte. Doch Szerb v...