In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to stand, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale.
This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, and at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders and existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium.
| ISBN: | 9781782270539 |
| Publication date: | 27th March 2014 |
| Author: | Antal Szerb |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press an imprint of Steerforth Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 107 pages |
| Series: | Pushkin Collection |
| Genres: |
Travel Biography: writers Travel writing |
In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations.
The Third Tower features in the following genres: Travel, Biography: writers, Travel writing
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The Third Tower was written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press an imprint of Steerforth Press
The Third Tower has 107 pages
Yes it is part of Pushkin Collection series