Leírás
A conventional Italian honeymoon becomes a psychic journey in this haunting novel.
Antal Szerb’s melancholy, witty novel of a Hungarian intellectual’s journey through Italy, teetering between comedy and despair.
The Traveler (Utas és holdvilág)
$ 39.95
Szerző-Author: Szerb Antal
In 1945, near the end of World War II, Antal Szerb, the author of The Traveler, was executed along with 2000 other Hungarian Jews during a forced march westward. Three years later the New York Jewish Refugee Aid Society erected a memorial in the Hungarian town of Balf where the executions had taken place. Part of the memorial is an open book, engraved in stone, bearing the following Antal Szerb quote: „Freedom is the concern not only of one nation but of all mankind.”
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Típus-Type: antikvár
Állapot-Condition: like new
Kiadó-Publisher: Authors Choice Press, 2003
Nyelv-Language: english
Oldalszám-Pages: 252
Kötés-Binding: hardcover
Azonosító-Item number: 31-548-1
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