She has a collection of short stories, How to Breathe Underwater, and one novel, The Invisible Bridge. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, as well as in several anthologies. Deeply Freudian in places, Szerb explores the notion of humanity’s innate death-wish through the slyly comic viewpoint of Mihly’s inability to decide if he wants to commit suicide. Julie Orringer is an American writer from Miami. It explores where love, desire and death collide in our hearts and minds, with a light touch and a tone that switches between the serious and the playful. Len Rix is a translator of Hungarian literature, best known for his translations of Antal Szerb’s Journey by Moonlight and Magda Szabo’s The Door, both of which will be published as NYRB Classics in Fall 2014. Among his major fictional works are Journey by Moonlight, The Pendragon Legend, and Oliver VII.

In late 1944 he was deported to a concentration camp where he died months later. Antal Szerbs dreamlike adventure is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness. a Jew turned Catholic monk who was his rival for Evas love and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle. He established a reputation as an academic at a very young age, spoke several languages, and lived in France, Italy, and England. Antal Szerb L B Rix - The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihálys honeymoon tour of Italy. Antal Szerb (1901–1945), born in Budapest, was a writer and scholar noted as one of the major literary personalities of the twentieth century.

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb