Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944

Zsuzsanna Varga; Galin Tihanov; Ágnes Péter; Peter Sherwood

Reflections in the Library
Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944

Antal Szerb

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Studies In Comparative Literature 46

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13 February 2017 • 160pp

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In this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native country as one of Europe's most important critics, and as the author of enduringly fascinating novels, Szerb was a leading figure in Hungarian inter-war literary life. He was to be overwhelmed by the rise of Fascism: in 1942 his ambitious History of Hungarian Literature was banned; in 1944 he was deported to a concentration camp. Three months later he was dead. Though his writings were revived in Communist Hungary and elsewhere, and his major novels have enjoyed great popularity in English in recent years, this is the first collection of his important essays to appear in English.

Reflections in the Library was edited by Zsuzsanna Varga, with introductory essays by Ágnes Péter and Galin Tihanov. The English text is the work of the distinguished translator Peter Sherwood.

Reviews:

‘Skillfully translated from Hungarian by Peter Sherwood, edited with utmost circumspection by Zsuzsanna Varga, provided with a magisterial Introduction by Ágnes Péter and a foreword by Galin Tihanov, reveals much about its author, the novelist, scholar, and man of letters Antal Szerb and his mindset... Reflections in the Library can be seen, among its other achievements, as a gesture of proclaiming, now to the English-speaking world, the lasting relevance of Szerb’s legacy... Although Szerb’s life’s work was left unfinished, his contribution to the art of the essay is large and remarkable enough to merit a sequel.’ — Ákos Farkas, Hungarian Cultural Studies 10, 2017 (full text online)
‘This is a beautifully produced and judiciously edited selection of essays by a major writer from early-twentieth-century Hungary... All of the essays reveal Szerb’s sparkling wit and humour as well as his acumen: describing Chesterton as a great scholar and sophisticated clown, he prophecies that Shaw’s work will outlive Chesterton’s, while his essays on Gogol and Proust equally overflow with aphoristic wit. It is a must-have volume both for critics and general readers: beautiful, touching, and remarkably up-to-date prose on nineteenth-century European literature.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 55.1, January 2019, 119-20

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ix-xii	Foreword Galin Tihanov doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.3	Cite
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xiii-xiv	Translator’s Note Peter Sherwood doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.4	Cite
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xv-xvi	Acknowledgements Z.V. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.5	Cite
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xvii-xviii	Notes On the Principal Literary Figures Mentioned in the Essays Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.6	Cite
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xix-xxv	Timeline of Major Works By Antal Szerb Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.7	Cite
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1-14	Introduction Antal Szerb: the Passionate Reader Ágnes Péter doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.8	Cite
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17-36	Chapter 1 William Blake (1928) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.9	Cite
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37-40	Chapter 2 Milton (1941) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.10	Cite
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41-50	Chapter 3 the Second Romantic Generation (byron, Shelley, Keats) (1941) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.11	Cite
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51-60	Chapter 4 Rousseau (1929) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.12	Cite
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61-62	Chapter 5 Don Juan’s Secret (1940) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.13	Cite
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65-78	Chapter 6 Stefan George (1926) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.14	Cite
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79-88	Chapter 7 Ibsen (1928) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.15	Cite
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89-96	Chapter 8 Dulcinea (cervantes) (1936) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.16	Cite
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97-102	Chapter 9 G. K. Chesterton (1929) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.17	Cite
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103-106	Chapter 10 Katherine Mansfield (1931) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.18	Cite
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107-116	Chapter 11 Gogol (1944) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.19	Cite
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117-122	Chapter 12 Marcel Proust (1936) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.20	Cite
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123-129	Chapter 13 Thomas Mann (1936) Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.21	Cite
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130-134	Index Antal Szerb doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0p9.22	Cite
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Szerb, Antal, Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944, Studies In Comparative Literature, 46 (Legenda, 2017)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944, antal Szerb, Studies In Comparative Literature, 46 (Legenda, 2017), p. 21.

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Szerb, Antal. 2017. Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944, Studies In Comparative Literature, 46 (Legenda)

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Reflections in the LibrarySelected Literary Essays 1926–1944

Antal Szerb

Reflections in the Library
Selected Literary Essays 1926–1944