The Queen's Necklace - Brossura

Szerb, Antal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782274472 ISBN 13: 9781782274476

Casa editrice: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2018

Riassunto

In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in the Revolution just four years later.
In this unusual, witty and often surprising version of the story, the great Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb takes the narrative as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age—including aspects of it seldom considered by more orthodox historians. The author’s vast knowledge is worn very lightly and the book teems with amusing anecdotes, but it is, at heart, a deeply personal work, a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which it was written.

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Recensione

'A wonderful book; both thoughtful and blasting, and another revelation of Szerb's light-footed erudition' --Ali Smith

'Antal Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century' --Daily Telegraph

'Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language' --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

L'autore

Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a writer, scholar, critic and translator born to Jewish parents but baptized Catholic. Multilingual, he lived in Hungary, France, Italy and England, and after graduating in German and English he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English and Hungarian literature.
At the age of 39, Szerb wrote an authoritative History of World Literature. He wrote his first novel, The Pendragon Legend, in 1934, followed by Journey by Moonlight in 1937, Oliver VII in 1942 and The Queen's Necklace in 1943. These, and a collection of his short stories, Love in a Bottle, are also published in English by Pushkin Press. Szerb was killed in a concentration camp in January 1945.

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• Editore: Pushkin Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1782274472
• ISBN 13: 9781782274476
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 380