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PublisherCentral European University Press

ISBN-109639116122

ISBN-139789639116122

eBay Product ID (ePID)335315

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Book TitleAdventures of Sindbad

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Fantasy / Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorGyula Krúdy

Book SeriesCeu Press Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width4.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsThis book is just a gift. I am grateful to George Szirtes for making it possible for me to read it and praise it., "This book is just a gift. I am grateful to George Szirtes for making it possible for me to read it and praise it."--Times Literary Supplement "Picked this up by sheer chance a few months ago and have already read it three times. These hypnotic little tales prefigure Surrealism and Magic Realism in their superbly atmospheric recreation of the dying Austro-Hungarian Empire.Gothic, Decadent, Astonishing !"--Amazon (extract from a reader's online review), Picked this up by sheer chance a few months ago and have already read it three times. These hypnotic little tales prefigure Surrealism and Magic Realism in their superbly atmospheric recreation of the dying Austro-Hungarian Empire.Gothic, Decadent, Astonishing !, "This book is just a gift. I am grateful to George Szirtes for making it possible for me to read it and praise it."--Times Literary Supplement "Picked this up by sheer chance a few months ago and have already read it three times. These hypnotic little tales prefigure Surrealism and Magic Realism in their superbly atmospheric recreation of the dying Austro-Hungarian Empire. Gothic, Decadent, Astonishing !"--Amazon (extract from a reader's online review)

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Series Volume NumberVol. 5

Table Of ContentIntroduction by George Szirtes Youth Sindbad's Dream By the Danube Sindbad and the Actress Winter Journey The Secret Room Escape from Women Mrs Bánati, the Lost Woman The Green Veil The Night Visitor An Overnight Stay Sumach Trees in Blossom Rozina The Unforgettable Compliment Sentimental Journey The Children's Eyes Mine The Woman Who Told Tales Albert Finds New Employment The Red Ox Marabou Madness from beyond the Grave Escape from Life Escape from Death Notes

SynopsisIn these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. He is by nature a melancholy sensualist, but whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire, or he of theirs, is a moot question. These short stories flow without a strict narrative framework Sindbad journeys between the past and the present and is merely a ghost in many of his adventures. Although Sindbad can move through time, it is time that proves his chief enemy, and youth that remains his real love. This deeply autumnal book, full of resonances and associations, is an erotic elegy to the dying Habsburg Empire. The stories are taken from the omnibus triple-volume Hungarian edition published as The Three Books of Sindbad in Hungary in 1944, which includes The Travels of Sindbad (1912), The Resurrection of Sindbad (1916), and The Youth and Grief of Sindbad (1917).

LC Classification NumberPH3281.K89