The Pendragon Legend by Len Rix
A riotous Gothic literary pastiche, where a young Hungarian scholar confronts dark forces in a Welsh castle shrouded in mystery
May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive -- Alberto Manguel Financial Times Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language -- Nicholas Lezard The Guardian Szerb was fluent in German and English and greatly interested in unusual religious beliefsHis knowledge of Rosicrucianism and the occult informs this often very funny book, which takes many affectionate potshots at the period's popular fiction. Szerb, who produced a history of English literature, knew his Shakespeare, Blake and Milton, but also the frothier writings of John Buchan, Edgar Wallace and P G Wodehouse -- Paul Bailey The Independent An academic jeu d'esprit... with teasing pastiches of John Cowper Powys, P. G. Wodehouse... and the early, comic fiction of Aldous Huxley -- Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal
Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age and remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. He was a prolific essayist and reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, and finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII and his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen's Necklace and Love in a Bottle and Other Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908968401 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908968400 |
| Title | The Pendragon Legend |
| Author | Len Rix |
| Series | Pushkin Collection |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2013-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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