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Antal Szerb


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
May 01, 1901

Died
January 27, 1945

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction


Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century.

Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilated Jewish parents in Budapest, but baptized Catholic. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. From 1924 to 1929 he lived in France and Italy, also spending a year in London, England.

As a student he published essays on Georg Trakl and Stefan George, and quickly established a formidable reputation as a scholar, writing erudite studies of William Blake and Henrik Ibsen among other works. Elected President of the Hungarian Literary Academy in 1933 - aged just 32 -, he published his first novel, The Pendragon Legend (which draws upo ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 16,039 ratings · 1,344 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
Journey by Moonlight
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4.22 avg rating — 10,735 ratings — published 1937 — 117 editions
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The Pendragon Legend
3.99 avg rating — 3,265 ratings — published 1934 — 55 editions
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Oliver VII
3.98 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 1943 — 19 editions
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The Queen's Necklace
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Budapesti kalauz Marslakók ...
4.18 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 1935 — 13 editions
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Love in a Bottle
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The Third Tower: Journeys i...
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A világirodalom története
4.70 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions
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A magyar irodalom törtenete
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Száz vers
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“In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight
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“And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen...”
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“Everyone has to find his own way to die.”
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New School Poll March 2025

 
  52 votes, 28.6%

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (1955) 162 pages.
 
  37 votes, 20.3%

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (1977) 197 pages.
 
  25 votes, 13.7%

 
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  24 votes, 13.2%


Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (1937) 299 pages.
 
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  9 votes, 4.9%

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