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The Third Tower: Journeys In Italy
A typically brilliant ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writersIn August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations From Venice he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna to stand fulfilling a lifelong dream before the sacred mosaics of San VitaleThis journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly and at times painfully up against an explosive present producing some
memorable observations on the social wonders and existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman ImperiumAntal 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
memorable observations on the social wonders and existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman ImperiumAntal 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
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