Journey by Moonlight

Antal Szerb was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. 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, Hungarian and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, was writtenin 1934. Journey by Moonlight appeared in 1937, followed in 1943 by The Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in a forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.

出版者:Pushkin Press

作者:Antal Szerb

页数:240

译者:Len Rix

出版时间:2001-1-1

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781901285505

图书标签:匈牙利游记意大利文学

Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to make a choice.

读后感

让我们先看看作者的照片。眼镜紧紧箍住智慧的额头，像一个大学文学教授。 他就是大学文学教授。（或者不是这样？或许他更像一个永远的局外人？） 他写过关于匈牙利文学史和世界文学史的专著，文思精奇。直至今日，高中生仍在对其专著死记硬背，高中生的父亲则像看小说一样重新...  

让我们先看看作者的照片。眼镜紧紧箍住智慧的额头，像一个大学文学教授。 他就是大学文学教授。（或者不是这样？或许他更像一个永远的局外人？） 他写过关于匈牙利文学史和世界文学史的专著，文思精奇。直至今日，高中生仍在对其专著死记硬背，高中生的父亲则像看小说一样重新...  

上班、下班、消遣、休息，再上班、下班、消遣、休息，日復一日重復單調乏味的生活。當有一日你發現你的人生幾乎不需思考、不由自主地按既定流程而行，你便會反問自己，這就是我的人生嗎？這是我想過的人生嗎？ 書中主角米哈伊一直清楚自己無法適應作為企業合伙人的中產階層身份...  

读完以后觉得和月亮与六便士有异曲同工之妙。都是讲中产阶级去寻找自己的过程，不过这本书带有一丝魔幻，故事结构也很独特！最喜欢的是大学同学讲死亡的部分，死亡是迷人的，死亡是性行为，对死亡有多惧怕就有多渴望死亡。是否很多人都在接近死亡，去寻求快感呢？ 另外总感觉作...  

＃阅读打卡＃ 《月光下的旅人》 瑟尔伯·昂托 计划阅读330min，实际阅读250min，完成100% 摘录： 父亲睡着了，米哈伊看着窗外，想在月光下分辨出托斯卡纳群山的轮廓。他得继续活着。他得活下去。他也会活得像废墟里的耗子。但毕竟是活着。只要人活着，总还有可能发生点什么。 ...  

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"the ideals that would only be catastrophic for a successful life. Nevertheless, it's joy that success would never bring."

重读，生活的文本性是一种理解的基础而非比喻，在此基础上，我们扮演或塑造角色，又为风格的混杂并最终归于荒诞而伤痛，这一伤痛退开来看又显出滑稽的意味。

"Like the rats among the ruins, but nonetheless alive" 结尾有点牵强。中欧文学探讨爱情死亡和生活的标准叙述模式。中间关于死亡和性的analogy太迷人了。

重读，生活的文本性是一种理解的基础而非比喻，在此基础上，我们扮演或塑造角色，又为风格的混杂并最终归于荒诞而伤痛，这一伤痛退开来看又显出滑稽的意味。

Negating who yourself truly are is a futile attempt. People tangled in their past would either go to an end or back to where they were. 翻译五星好评