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Queen''s Necklace

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"The Queen's Necklace was first published as A Kirâalynâe Nyaklâanca in Hungary, 1942"--Title page verso.

About the author

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.

Summary

A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists

Product details

Authors Szerb Antal, Len Rix, Antal Szerb, Antal (Author) Szerb, Szerb Antal
Assisted by Len Rix (Translation), Rix Len (Translation)
Publisher Pushkin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.10.2018
 
EAN 9781782274476
ISBN 978-1-78227-447-6
No. of pages 384
Series Pushkin Blues
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > History

FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: literary and general

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