Queen''s Necklace

Informationen zum Autor Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in Cambridge. He is the translator of all Szerb's work published in English and his translations have been widely celebrated, earning him the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the PEN Translation Prize. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour and understated irony. Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight , Oliver VII and The Pendragon Legend , as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle and the history The Queen's Necklace . Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in Cambridge. He is the translator of all Szerb's work published in English and his translations have been widely celebrated, earning him the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the PEN Translation Prize.A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe´s last great humanists Zusammenfassung In this unusual! witty and often surprising version of the story of Marie Antoinette's necklace! Antal Szerb uses the narrative as a standpoint from which to survey an entire age.

Product details

• Authors: Szerb Antal, Antal Szerb, Antal (Author) Szerb, Szerb Antal
• Assisted by: Rix Len (Afterword), Len Rix (Translation), Rix Len (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781906548612
• ISBN: 978-1-906548-61-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), HISTORY / Europe / France, Fiction in translation, TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Classic fiction: general and literary