ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.
"An NYRB Classics Original The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihaly'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 cafe. It's Janos, someone Mihaly hasn't seen for years, and he wants Mihaly to come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble comes to a head when Mihaly 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, Eva and Tamas, whose bizarre amateur theatricals linked sex and death forever in his mind; Ervin, a Jew turned Catholic monk who was his rival for Eva's love; and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle. Antal Szerb's dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakov'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, "No one who has read it has failed to love it.""
"Der erfolgreiche Roman des wiederentdeckten großen ungarischen Schriftstellers: Mit feiner Ironie erzählt Antal Szerb in diesem wahrhaft europäischen Roman die Geschichte einer jungen Ehe. Er beleuchtet den Weg des frischvermählten Paars Erzsi und Mihály wie der helle Mond eine venezianische Gasse. Bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise in Italien wird Mihály durch die unerwartete Begegnung mit einem alten Freund von melancholischen Erinnerungen an seine rebellische Jugend überwältigt, und erste Phantasien über das Ende ihrer Beziehung beschleichen ihn. Als er seine Frau auf der Weiterreise an einem kleinen Bahnhof aus Versehen "verliert", begreift Mihály dies als ein Zeichen, und eine ganz andere Reise beginnt, eine Schattenreise zum Selbst."
"Der erfolgreiche Roman des wiederentdeckten grossen ungarischen Schriftstellers: Mit feiner Ironie erzählt Antal Szerb in diesem wahrhaft europäischen Roman die Geschichte einer jungen Ehe. Er beleuchtet den Weg des frischvermählten Paars Erzsi und Mihály wie der helle Mond eine venezianische Gasse. Bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise in Italien wird Mihály durch die unerwartete Begegnung mit einem alten Freund von melancholischen Erinnerungen an seine rebellische Jugend überwältigt, und erste Phantasien über das Ende ihrer Beziehung beschleichen ihn. Als er seine Frau auf der Weiterreise an einem kleinen Bahnhof aus Versehen "verliert", begreift Mihály dies als ein Zeichen, und eine ganz andere Reise beginnt, eine Schattenreise zum Selbst."
"ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose."@en
"Op hun huwelijksreis naar het vooroorlogse Italië komt een Hongaars echtpaar tot dieper inzicht in zichzelf en anderen."
"Mihaly and Erszi are a couple from Budapest on honeymoon in Italy. They are "accidentally" separated at a railway station and Mihaly starts a mystical and dazzling journey, first in search of a childhood friend who has become a priest and then plunging into a sensual Rome. Meanwhile Erszi leaves for Paris to contemplate her failed marriage and meets a stranger who will initiate her into life "beyond the wall.""
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