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Journey by Moonlight

Antal Szerb

Paperback | Pages: 299 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 4654 Users | 409 Reviews

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Original Title:	Utas és holdvilág
ISBN:	1901285502 (ISBN13: 9781901285505)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mihály, Erzsi, János Szepetneki, Zoltán Pataki, Tamás Ulpius, Éva Ulpius
Setting:	Italy Rome(Italy) Florence(Italy) …more Venice(Italy) Ravenna(Italy) Siena(Italy) Paris(France) …less

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

'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'

Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there on his honeymoon with wife Erszi, he soon abandon her in order to find himself, haunted by old friends from his turbulent teenage days: beautiful, kind Tamas, brash and wicked Janos, and the sexless yet unforgettable Eva. Journeying from Venice to Ravenna, Florence and Rome, Mihály loses himself in Venetian back alleys and in the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside, driven by an irresistible desire to resurrect his lost youth among Hungary's Bright Young Things, and knowing that he must soon decide whether to return to the ambiguous promise of a placid adult life, or allow himself to be seduced into a life of scandalous adventure.

Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is an undoubted masterpiece of Modernist literature, a darkly comic novel cut through by sex and death, which traces the effects of a socially and sexually claustrophobic world on the life of one man.

Translated from the Hungarian by the renowned and award-winning Len Rix, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (first published as Utas és Holdvilág in Hungary in 1937) is the consummate European novel of the inter-war period.

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Title	:	Journey by Moonlight
Author	:	Antal Szerb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 299 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2001 by Pushkin Press (first published 1937)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Hungarian Literature. Cultural. Hungary. Classics. Literature

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Madness, Budapest, wanderings, Venetian alleyways, lost loves, decadence, despair - everything a lonely young bohemienne could want in a novel! Bizarre and thoroughly Hungarian.

The first time I've heard about Antal Szerb was no more than two months ago. Since then, I managed to put my hands onto all the novels by Szerb translated into English, whose number equals to three.I had the luck to make a good catch while visiting an Oxfam charity shop in lovely Bath, UK. Bless the kind reader who donated Szerb's novels to Oxfam! 'Journey by Moonlight' ('Utas és holdvilág'), published in 1937, is widely considered as Szerb's masterpiece, but I must confess that I liked 'The

Kate wrote: "I loved this book, too!"So glad you did, Kate. :)

Journey by Moonlight is an apt title for this surreal story about a Hungarian man, Mihaly, longing for the world of his youth and taking an emotional journey to his future. He had made the effort to live a conventional middle-class life, work in finance in a family firm, and marry a proper woman. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly mixes up the trains and finds himself separated from his wife. He wonders if the marriage was a mistake, and does not try to find her.It's an opportunity to escape

Still reading, but if you read only one pretentiously titled and obscurely-middle-European-authored book this year, or perhaps in your life, it should be this small masterpiece by Szerb (killed in 1943), of whom I - I! - had never heard. To describe the plot - with world-weary Hungarian newlyweds on a honeymoon in 1930s Italy, memories of a beautiful brother-and-sister set of schoolfriends from Buda - or perhaps Pest - on the verge of incest, and with suicides, another schoolfriend who becomes a

this is beautifully written but somehow it did not resonate with me. set in Europe between the wars it tells the tale of a newly married man who has unresolved issues from his pasthe ends up deserting his wife whilst they are on honeymoon in Italy (they are from Hungary), what an utter cad. following this he mooches around Italy in a funk, while friends from his past flit in and out, a monk, borderline gangster and his unrequited love who it turns out has murdered her brotherwifey ends up in

Very intelligent and well read author. His light touch but weighty contemplation reminds me of Proust and Walser. He is compared to Schulz but I think that's most likely due to their shared tragic deaths. This is a book of intrigues but it won't be off-putting to those that abhore such typical subjects because the writing is so skilled. The quality of Hungarian writers such as Krudy, Kostolanyi and Krasznahorkai are no longer a secret to the informed reader but it might be Szerb that tops them