Name: Journey by Moonlight
Rating: 3.833333333333333 (3 reviews)

Antal Szerb

Journey by Moonlight

Len Rix

An early-twentieth-century classic - the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia.

Ilse

Antal Szerb keeps on captivating me with his art. Journey by Moonlight is such a beautiful and strange story that I don’t quite know how to place it now that I’ve read the final page. I found it very fascinating and loved the paradox between Erzsi and Mihály. Definitely a book I’d recommend, and I can’t wait to discover more of Szerb’s work!

"No one who has read it has failed to love it." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian. "Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century." - Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph. Anxious to please his bourgeois 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 and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.

arkangyal

Peter V. Czipott

Marc Pitty

Kerry orr

Liam Byrne 

After Erzsi and Mihâaly are married, Mihâaly leaves his wife to undertake a series of journeys throughout Italy, encountering a cast of eccentric figures from his past.

Journey by Moonlight

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