The Queen's Necklace by Len Rix
Revisits the story of Marie Antoinette's necklace in order to present a portrait of the age.
"A writer of immense subtlety and generosity, with an uncommonly light touch which masks its own artistry - Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers -- ALI SMITH Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th centuryA" - PAUL BAILEY Daily Telegraph "Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language." - NICOLAS LEZARD The Guardian The Queen's Necklace, Antal Szerb (Pushkin Press, GBP 12) Antal Szerb is another novelist, a Hungarian, whose work the Pushkin Press has championed here and who will intrigue the reader from first encounters with his novels The Pendragon Legend and Journey by Moonlight. The Queen's Necklace is based on the true story of a necklace which belonged to Marie-Antoinette and 'as with the Nibelung's treasure in the depths of the Rhine, the short period of time [the necklace] spent on earth was enough to alter the course of destiny.' When Szerb wrote the novel, the blend of historical fact and imaginative fiction he created was not used as much as it is by novelists now, but few have ever handled the form as well as he does. His novel is full of learning and very thoughtful - it vividly recreates a dramatic period of French history and reveals another side to a masterful writer. Read Szerb. He will haunt you."
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 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 Moonlight 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906548087 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906548080 |
| Title | The Queen's Necklace |
| Author | Len Rix |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2009-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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