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Number of Pages
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Language
English
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The Tolstoy Of Transylvania... Bnffys Trilogy Is Just About As Good As Any Fiction I Have Ever Read - Charles Moore, Telegraphthe Elegiac Wisdom Of His Writing Makes Him One Of Those People Whose Life You Wish Could Have Ended In Something Other Than Calamity... A Great Storyteller - Guardianback From Troy, The Divine Helen Looks With Fresh Eyes At Her Foul-Mouthed Hero-Husband; A Girl In A Mountain Village Seeks Reassurance About Her Arranged Marriage; A Drunken Mandarin Invites The Devil To Tea; And A German Princess Discovers That People Actually Drink Goats Milk. These Delightful Tales Exhibit Bnffys Customary Blend Of High Seriousness And Subtle Humour, His Rich Imagination And His Remarkably Wide-Ranging Sympathies.Appearing In English For The First Time, In Finely Nuanced Translations By The Prize-Winning Len Rix, The Enchanted Night Furthers The Writers Growing Reputation As One Of The Most Compelling European Writers Of The Twentieth Century.Part Of The Pushkin Press Classics Series: Timeless Storytelling By Icons Of Literature, Hand-Picked From Around The Globe.Translated By Len Rix.Count Mikls Bnffy Was Born In 1873 In Kolozsvr In What Was Then Hungarian Transylvania. A Brilliant Polymath, He Studied Law, Music And Painting, Became A Noted Stage And Set Designer, Wrote Plays, Short Stories And Novels, And Served As His Countrys Foreign Minister. During The Second World War He Urged Both His Own And The Romanian Governments To Withdraw Their Support For Germany: In Revenge The Retreating Wehrmacht Looted And Burned His Estate. After The Soviet Occupation He Was Declared A Class Enemy And Had To Wait Until 1949 Before, Penniless And In Broken Health, He Was Allowed To Rejoin His Family In Budapest. He Died A Year Later.Len Rix Was Born In Zimbabwe And Now Lives In Cambridge. A Celebrated Translator From The Hungarian, He Has Been Awarded The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize And The Pen America Translation Prize. His Translations Of Works By Antal Szerb, All Published By Pushkin Press, Have Been Widely Acclaimed.
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Author
Miklรณs Bรกnffy
Number of Pages
256
Language
English
SKU
BK0536375
ISBN
9781782275923
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
12.95 x 1.63 x 19.81 cm
Binding
Paperback
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