The burning of the world

The burning of the world

By Béla Zombory-Moldován

Subjects: Hungary, history, Veterans, Biography, World War, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, personal narratives, Hungarian Personal narratives, Artists, hungary, World war, 1914-1918, hungary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Hungary, biography, Artists, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, History, Soldiers, Artists

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"--

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