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There are writers who seem to belong to their time, and then there are writers who hover above it, too cosmopolitan to be contained, too ironic to be enlisted, too subtle to be safe. Antal Szerb was one of the latter. Born in Budapest in 1901, he lived through the dislocations of the twentieth century’sContinue reading “Antal Szerb and the Melancholy of Central Europe”