Title: The burning of the world
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"--
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Artists, Soldiers, Hungarian Personal narratives, Veterans, Biography, History, World war, 1914-1918, personal narratives, World war, 1914-1918, hungary, Hungary, biography, Artists, biography, Artists, hungary, Hungary, history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Places: Hungary
People: Béla Zombory-Moldován (1885-1967)
Time periods: 1867-1918