Oliver VII - Softcover

Szerb, Antal (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901285901 ISBN 13: 9781901285901

Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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, his own nature, and the paradoxes of the human condition.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Antal Szerb (1901 1945) was born 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 novels, available in Pushkin Press, include The Pendragon Legend (1934), set in London and Wales, Journey by Moonlight (1937), The Queen's Necklace (1943), and Oliver VII (1943). He was beaten to death in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1901285901
• ISBN 13: 9781901285901
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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