The first English translation of the self-proclaimed “Viscount” Emilio Lascano Tegui — a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right—On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part...
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Paints an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young aristocratic Transylvanian...
Continuing the story of the two Transylvanian cousins from They Were Counted, this novel parallels the lives of the counts Bálint Abády and László Gyeröffy to the political fate of their country: Bálint...
"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...
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...