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The Withering World
Sándor Márai
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Description for The Withering World
Hardcover. This collection, the first and only edition of Marai's poems in the English language - here presented in John Ridland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression. Translator(s): Ridland, John; Szipowt, Peter. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 416.
Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Rudland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression.
Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Rudland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression.
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847493316
SKU
V9781847493316
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99-5
About Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (1900–89) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist and poet who lived in exile for the last fifty years of his life and is now considered one of his country’s major twentieth-century writers.
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