Journey by Moonlight (NYRB Classics)

Journey by Moonlight (NYRB Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and MihÂ¡lyâ‚¬s honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the couple are sitting at an outdoor cafÂ©. Itâ‚¬s JÂ¡nos, someone MihÂ¡ly hasnâ‚¬t seen for years, and he wants MihÂ¡ly to come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble comes to a head when MihÂ¡ly misses the train he and Erzsi are due to take to Rome. Off he goes across Italy, wandering from city to city, haunted and accosted by a strange array of figures from the troubled youth that he thought he had left behind: There are the charismatic siblings, â€°va and TamÂ¡s, whose bizarre amateur theatricals linked sex and death forever in his mind; Ervin, a Jew turned Catholic monk who was his rival for â€°vaâ‚¬s love; and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle.

Antal Szerbâ‚¬s dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakovâ‚¬s The Master and Margarita, is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness, eros, and menace. In the words of the critic Nicholas Lezard, â‚¬Å“No one who has read it has failed to love it.â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2014-10-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590177730

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2014-10-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590177730

Journey by Moonlight (NYRB Classics)

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