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 Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
 Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb ... Pushkin PressNewest Review: ... he associated with grown-up matters, such as the fathering of children, and he secretly feared it, with the same instinctive ... more ... fear he had of strong sunlight, the scent of flowers, and extremely beautiful women." (Chapter 1, para. 3).
The story follows Mihaly's trip to Italy which becomes a panicked, angst-ridden "escape" from his new wife (whom he abandons on a train!) and a regression into the feelings of his childhood. It's as though he is being chased by a dread-heavy nostalgia and in an attempt to run away from it he goes on a kind of "walkabout" but finds himself face to face with his angst...more |
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Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb: The most fantastically evocative book ever! (444 words)
by - written on 25/03/09 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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This is quite possibly the best book I have ever read, and I am quite worried about not doing it justice in this review! It begins: "On the train everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice, with the back-alleys." (Chapter 1, first line). This "trouble", you begin to realize as the narrator draws you on, forms the seeds of a rising panic which will ultimately take the main character to the brink of his sanity. Mihaly's quite idiotic weak-mindedness is oddly appealing, and is nicely summed up by his relationship to his own honeymoon destination: "Italy he associated with grown-up matters, such as the ... Read the complete review
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