Antal szerb was a noted hungarian scholar and writer. Anxious to please his bourgeois father, mihaly has joined the family firm in budapest. In this case, however, the land of the dead is not the wasteland of europes ruined culture but the hinterland of ones own memory, of ones own lost youth and the tragedies that characterized it. Buy journey by moonlight by len rix, antal szerb from waterstones today. Read journey by moonlight by antal szerb available from rakuten kobo.
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