Journey by Moonlight (Paperback) by Antal Szerb, Len Rix

from JosephCamilleri

On honeymoon in Italy, Mihály chooses a solitary nocturnal ramble in the back alleys of Venice over the pleasures of the bridal bed. It doesn't take a psychology guru to realise that the marriage is not off to the best of starts. His wife Erszi knows that, this being her dreamy and eccentric Mihá...

from DieFledermaus

This beautifully written, highly atmospheric and evocative book has a rather passive, annoying main character so in the end I didn't love it as much as Szerb's Oliver VII, a perfectly light, airy and ironic fable about a king who stages his own coup and ends up disguised as himself. Mihaly and hi...

from stillatim

This is very confusing--Szerb's book reminds me so much of the English novel* (of the ironic-E. M. Forster paradigm), but is just slightly off. This might have something to do with the problems of translation; the prose just isn't that crisp, and the gentle-irony thing does depend on the crisp pr...

from labfs39

Mihály is on his honeymoon in Italy, when he becomes overwhelmed with nostalgia for his childhood, especially his friendship with Éva and Tamás Ulpius. The Ulpius household was very unusual, in part because they eschewed the bourgeois upbringing of Mihály's middle-class family. But his relationsh...

from baswood

Very European, very existential and very good. Antal Szerb's [Journey by Moonlight] was published in Hungarian in 1937 and this edition was translated by Len Rix in 2001. Rix himself describes the actions of Mihaly; the central character as immoral, absurd and farcical, but I find his actions tho...