Stefan Zweigwas born in 1881 in Vienna, a member - Pushkin Press
Stefan Zweigwas born in 1881 in Vienna, a member - Pushkin Press
Stefan Zweigwas born in 1881 in Vienna, a member - Pushkin Press
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Oliver VII<br />
antal SZerb<br />
Translated from the Hungarian by<br />
len rix<br />
“Oliver VII is constructed out of pure joy”<br />
The Guardian<br />
The restless ruler of an obscure Central<br />
European state plots a coup aga<strong>in</strong>st himself<br />
and escapes to Venice <strong>in</strong> search of ‘real’<br />
experience. There he falls <strong>in</strong> with a team of<br />
conmen and ends up, to his own surprise,<br />
impersonat<strong>in</strong>g himself. His journey through<br />
successive levels of illusion and reality teaches<br />
him much about the world, about his own<br />
nature and the paradoxes of the human<br />
condition.<br />
Repr<strong>in</strong>t: autuMn 2012<br />
ISBN 9781908968067 • 176pp • £7.99<br />
Antal Szerb was <strong>born</strong> <strong>in</strong>to a cultivated Jewish family of Jewish<br />
descent <strong>in</strong> 1901. He graduated <strong>in</strong> German, English and Hungarian, and<br />
rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, publish<strong>in</strong>g books on<br />
drama and poetry, studies of Blake and Ibsen, and Histories of English,<br />
Hungarian and World Literature. In 1933 he was elected president of the<br />
Hungarian Literary Academy. He was also known as an essayist, playwright<br />
and as the author of various novellas and a historical fiction, The Queen’s<br />
Necklace. He died <strong>in</strong> a labour camp <strong>in</strong> 1945.
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