Throat-Rattling
Gabriele Annan: Antal Szerb, 5 June 2003
Journey by Moonlight
by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix.
Pushkin, 240 pp., £6.99, November 2002,1 901285 50 2 Show More
by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix.
Pushkin, 240 pp., £6.99, November 2002,
“... in Le Grand Meaulnes, for Alec Waugh in The Loom of Youth, for Thomas Mann in ‘Tonio Kröger’. Szerb’s group centres on a charismatic brother and sister, Tamás and Eva Ulpius, who live in unstructured bohemian chaos with their father, a grumpy archaeologist. The others – Ervin, a brilliant, sensitive, gentle Jewish convert to Catholicism, János, a ... ”