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Traveler and the Moonlight by Antal Szerb and translated from the Hungarian by Peter Hargitai recounts the misadventures of a closeted intellectual forced to fit into a life of conventional morality and its notions of manhood. Thirty-six-year-old Mih ly takes his new bride to Italy for their honeymoon, where chance separates them, and he finds himself on the run from his marriage. Wandering aimlessly from Perugia to Rome, he begins a break-though journey of fatally erotic longing that culminates on the edge of an abyss too dark to contemplate. Set in Europe during the rise of Fascism, his visionary states are eerily prophetic about one of the darkest periods in human history and of the author's own doom.
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Antal Szerb (1901-1945) is a Hungarian literary historian, essayist, novelist, and man of letters. Although he is known chiefly for his History of Hungarian Literature (1934), his History of World Literature (1941) and his essays on English literature and cultural history, his novel Utas 駸 holdvil疊 (1937), variously translated into English as The Traveler (1994), Journey by Moonlight (2001), and Traveler and the Moonlight (2015), is a unique contribution to modern world literature. During a forced march in 1945, Antal Szerb and 2000 fellow Jews were executed by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave in the obscure village of Balf, Hungary.
In memory of Antal Szerb, the translator continues to donate his royalties from the sale of this book to the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. https: //www.flholocaustmuseum.org/support/donate-now/
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