The Pendragon Legend - Couverture souple

Szerb, Antal

 
9781805330660: The Pendragon Legend
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1805330667 ISBN 13 : 9781805330660
Editeur : Pushkin Press Classics, 2024

Synopsis

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language."

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soirée a young Hungarian scholar, Dr János Bátky, is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Bátky receives a mysterious phone call warning him not to go. Once there, nothing is quite as it seems... Antal Szerb's first novel is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with a murder mystery to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, Szerb's steely intelligence poses disturbingly modern questions about the nature of self and reality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Antal Szerb was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, was written in 1934. Journey by Moonlight appeared in 1937, followed in 1943 by The Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in a forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language."

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soirée a young Hungarian scholar, Dr János Bátky, is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Bátky receives a mysterious phone call warning him not to go. Once there, nothing is quite as it seems... Antal Szerb's first novel is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with a murder mystery to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, Szerb's steely intelligence poses disturbingly modern questions about the nature of self and reality.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Pushkin Press Classics
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1805330667
ISBN 13 
9781805330660
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781901285895: The Pendragon Legend

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1901285898 ISBN 13 :  9781901285895
Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2007
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