The Queen's Necklace - Brossura

Szerb, Antal

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ISBN 10: 1906548080 ISBN 13: 9781906548087

Casa editrice: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2009

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In August 1785 Paris buzzed with a scandal involving an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the unpopular Queen herself. At the heart of the scandal was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation inflicted on the royal family by this affair contributed to their appalling deaths in the Revolution just four years later.
In this version of the story, Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb uses 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, and a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which it was written.

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Recensione:

A writer of immense subtlety and generosity, with an uncommonly light touch which masks its own artistry ... Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers --Ali Smith

Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century. --Paul Bailey Daily Telegraph

'Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language' NICHOLAS LEZARD --The Guardian

L'autore:

Antal Szerb (1901?1945) was an essayist, novelist, playwright, and a formidable scholar whose books include Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII, The Pendragon Legend, and The Traveler. He was twice awarded the Baumgarten Prize and in 1933 he was elected president of the Hungarian Literary Academy. Len Rix also translated Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII, and The Pendragon Legend, and received the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of The Door.

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