The Pendragon Legend

Authors: Len Rix & Antal Szerb

Classic fiction (pre c 1945) | Fiction in translation

Published on 27^th June 2024 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Pushkin Press Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 240 pages
198mm x 129mm | 0g

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAt an end-of-season London soirée a young Hungarian scholar, Dr János Bátky, is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Bátky receives a mysterious phone call warning him not to go. Once there, nothing is quite as it seems... Antal Szerb's first novel is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with a murder mystery to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, Szerb's steely intelligence poses disturbingly modern questions about the nature of self and reality.