"No one who has read it has failed to love it." — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century." — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has...
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At an end-of-London-season soirée, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Bátky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors. Invited to the family seat — Pendragon...
This selection of stories, set in mythical times and in 1920s and 1930s London and Paris, reflects Antal Szerb’s love of life and irrepressible irony that has become his trademark: from Szerb’s earliest stories, driven by his intense political...
Герои венгерского писателя Б. Берты – трудовые люди, жизнь которых автор, в прошлом рабочий, хорошо знает по собственному...
Князь Гавриил Петрович Гагарин (1745–1807) — видный политический деятель времен Екатерины II и Павла I — прожил интересную и бурную жизнь,...
Ицик Мангер (1902–1969) — крупнейший еврейский поэт, писавший на идише. Родился в Коломые (Галиция), детство провел в Черновцах, затем жил в...
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for...
Роман "Великолепные Эмберсоны" незаслуженно забытого ныне, но пользовавшегося огромной популярностью в первой половине двадцатого...
Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades...
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays — call them Mother and Father — live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to...