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Oliver VII

By Antal Szerb
Translated by Len Rix

By Antal Szerb
Translated by Len Rix

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Part of Pushkin Collection

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Jul 31, 2007 | ISBN 9781906548537

Oliver VII by Antal Szerb
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About Oliver VII

The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’ experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive levels of illusion and reality teaches him much about the world, about his own nature and the paradoxes of the human condition. Szerb offered Oliver VII as a translation from a non-existent English writer, A H Redcliff — typical Szerb humor, or a reflection of the fact that as a ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ his own work was banned by the Nazi regime?

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About Antal Szerb

Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a… More about Antal Szerb

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Ebook | $11.99
Published by Pushkin Press
Jul 31, 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781906548537
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Praise

“Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century.” – Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph

“Journey by Moonlight is a burning book, a major book.” – George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement

“[T]here is more to it than fable. It actually has much in common with Journey by Moonlight the flight from identity, the alleys of Venice, the choices that must be made between duty and pleasure, or between two women. And it has its comedy, too.” - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

“A writer of immense subtlety and generosity, with an uncommonly light touch which masks its own artistry. His novels transform farce into poetry, comic melancholy into a kind of self-effacing grace… Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers.” – Ali Smith

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