Enchanted Night: Selected Tales

The Enchanted Night is a collection of delightful tales by Count Miklós Bánffy, translated by Len Rix. It showcases Bánffy's blend of high seriousness and subtle humour, rich imagination, and wide-ranging sympathies. The tales explore various themes, including the aftermath of war, arranged marriages, and the supernatural. Bánffy's reputation as one of the most compelling European writers of the twentieth century is further enhanced by this collection.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 October 2020
Publisher: Pushkin Press

The Tolstoy of Transylvania... Bánffy's trilogy is just about as good as any fiction I have ever read - Charles Moore, Telegraph The elegiac wisdom of his writing makes him one of those people whose life you wish could have ended in something other than calamity... a great storyteller - Guardian Back from Troy, the divine Helen looks with fresh eyes at her foul-mouthed hero-husband; a girl in a mountain village seeks reassurance about her arranged marriage; a drunken mandarin invites the devil to tea; and a German princess discovers that people actually drink goat's milk. These delightful tales exhibit Bánffy's customary blend of high seriousness and subtle humour, his rich imagination and his remarkably wide-ranging sympathies. Appearing in English for the first time, in finely nuanced translations by the prize-winning Len Rix, The Enchanted Night furthers the writer's growing reputation as one of the most compelling European writers of the twentieth century. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Len Rix. Count Miklós Bánffy was born in 1873 in Kolozsvár in what was then Hungarian Transylvania. A brilliant polymath, he studied law, music and painting, became a noted stage and set designer, wrote plays, short stories and novels, and served as his country's foreign minister. During the Second World War he urged both his own and the Romanian governments to withdraw their support for Germany: in revenge, the retreating Wehrmacht looted and burned his estate. After the Soviet occupation he was declared a "class enemy" and had to wait until 1949 before, penniless and in broken health, he was allowed to rejoin his family in Budapest. He died a year later. Len Rix was born in Zimba.

Weight: 212g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781782275923