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Mihaly and Erszi are a couple from Budapest on honeymoon in Italy. They are "accidentally" separated at a railway station and Mihaly starts a mystical and dazzling journey, first in search of a childhood friend who has become a priest and then plunging into a sensual Rome. Meanwhile Erszi leaves for Paris to contemplate her failed marriage and meets a stranger who will initiate her into life "beyond the wall."

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Szerb was a scholar and literary historian of considerable eminence in Hungary. His History of Hungarian Literature is still considered authoritative some 50 years after his death in a concentration camp. He left two novels, Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Attila -A barbarian's love story, Juil 31 2004

Par	Emma Jauregui Lopez "Marieen Jauregui" (Miami) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

I really liked this book because it a love history, but not just a love to a couple but love to do what you want to do. The love for get your dreams under your own ideas.It's a good book that everyboy must read.
"Less than the cloud to the wind
Less than the foam to the sea
I am to thee"

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Sex or Suicide?, Jui 19 2004

Par	"nichome" (Hungary) - Voir tous mes commentaires

You can see from the first page that Mihaly is not comfortable with the idea of a honeymoon. A trip that is meant to finally draw a line under the extreme and intimate relationships and obsessions of his adolescence only plunges him more deeply into an irrational and self-destructive nostalalgia for the world within a world inhabited by his friends Tamas, Ervin, Janos and most of all the dangerous and captivating Eva. Szerb allows us into the Mihaly's deepest thoughts as he seems to recapture and then abandon the memories of his first love on a roadtrip around the backwaters and tourist traps Mussolini's Italy. He tries to weigh up his choices of soul and suicide or sex and security. There are times when the reader probably wants to just slap Mihaly and tell him to grow up but you secretly hope that somehow he can rediscover the naivity and� purity of his youth, or at least find a more bohemian alternative than returning to work for his father in the Varaljai Hemp and Flax Works. It is funny, fascinating and frustrating in turn. Szerb has written a Hungarian take on Cocteau's 'Les Enfants Terribles', with more sex, more grounding in the economics of middle-class middle Europe and with less iron, but more irony.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Historic, romantic, enticing, F�v 18 2004

Par	JSollami (Stamford, CT) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Journey by Moonlight (Paperback)

This book is a classic in Hungarian literature, so I've learned, and it rightly deserves its status. Deceptive in style, and written almost from a Kafkaesque perspective, one feels as if one is walking in the landscape of "The Castle," but dealing with characters from Donna Tartt's "The Secret History." The blend of the two is intriguing, and the feeling this work gives of 1930s European degeneracy and ennui is alluring and, one assumes, authentic, since it was first published in 1937 but has been made available in English for the first time now. The work isn't for everyone. It can be a bit ponderous and requires a certain mindset to appreciate its subtleties and its pace. But it is well worth reading for those with a literary bent, since, without a doubt, it is a highly nuanced literary work.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Complex characters, beautifully written
Apparently, this book is staple reading for Hungarian students and I can see why. The shape of the overall story is satisfying with complex characters who change their minds a lot... Read more

Publi� le F�v 17 2004 par HumbleReader

1.0�toiles sur 5 I've read both versions of this book...
The first and most unforgiving error Len Rix made was the title. The original translation, titled The Traveler, is a much better read if one wants to get the full effect Szerb... Read more

Publi� le Ao� 9 2003 par natalie sosa

4.0�toiles sur 5 Death is a Character
The most compelling character in this novel is dead. Tamas appears only as a memory, a ghost, haunting Mihaly, the central character, until he is sick with nostalgia. Read more

Publi� le Jui 11 2002 par Chelle

5.0�toiles sur 5 Making the Journey Brighter
This is the best book I have ever read, and at age 65 after a great deal of reading, that should mean something. Read more

Publi� le Avril 16 2002 par Ozzie Maland