A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight
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 ...' Mihaly has dreamt of Italy
all his life.
When he finally travels there, on his honeymoon
with Erszi, he soon abandon his new wife 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, Mihaly 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 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 is the consummate European novel of the inter-war period.
Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
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