The burning of the world
Subtitle: a memoir of 1914
By: Béla Zombory-Moldován ; translated from the Hungarian, and with an introduction and notes, by Peter Zombory-Moldovan
Contributors: Zombory-Moldovan, Peter
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781590178096
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Artists; Soldiers; Hungarian Personal narratives; Veterans; Biography; History
Description: "Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I , an NYRB Classics Original. The budding young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines--or perhaps on his own lines--and facing relentless rifle and artillery fire. Badly wounded, he returned to normal life, which now struck him as unspeakably strange. He had witnessed, he realized, the end of a way of life, of a whole world. Recently discovered among private papers and published here for the first time in any language, this extraordinary reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century"--
Table of contents: title: Novi; title: Budapest at war; title: Veszprém; title: The march; title: Deployment; title: Into the fire; title: Back to life; title: Home again; title: The hospital; title: Leave; title: Sajóvárkony; title: Lovrana.