À l'aube de la quarantaine, Antal Szerb avait écrit cette farce politique loufoque, qui est tout aussi bien une fable existentielle. Oliver VII contient, comme de juste, une morale - ou plutôt, à dire...

A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writersIn August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed...

THE RESTLESS RULER of an obscure Central European state plots a coup against himself and escapes to Venice in search of 'real' experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his...

"A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time...

"Here you have Szerb in miniature revealing his multi-faceted genius" - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian. This selection of Antal Szerb's stories and novellas, set first in a quasi-mythical past and then in...

"An absolute treat, deliciously ludic, to be read with a big smile on your face throughout."—Nicholas Lezard, Guardian AT THE END-OF-LONDON-SEASON soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos...