作者简介
Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a writer, scholar, critic and translator born to Jewish parents but baptized Catholic. Multilingual, he live d in Hungary, France, Italy and England, and after graduating in German and English he rapidly established himself as a pro lific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English and Hungarian literature.At the age of 39, Szerb wrote an authoritative History of World Literature. He wrote his first novel, The Pendragon Legend, in 1934, followed by Journey by Moon light in 1937, Oliver VII in 1942 and The Queen's Necklace in 1943. These, and a collection of his short stories, Love in a Bottle, are also published in English by Pushkin Press. Szerb was killed in a concentration camp in January 1945.
内容简介
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything--an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute, and the hated Queen herself. In this unusual, witty, and often surprising version of the story of Marie Antoinette's necklace, Antal Szerb uses the narrative as a standpoint from which to survey an entire age.
Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a writer, scholar, critic and translator born to Jewish parents but baptized Catholic. Multilingual, he lived in Hungary, France, Italy and England, and after graduating in German and English he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English and Hungarian l...
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