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Oliver VII
1942 novel by Antal Szerb
1942 novel by Antal Szerb
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Oliver VII |
| title_orig | VII. Olivér |
| translator | Len Rix |
| image | File:Oliver_VII.jpg |
| caption | English translation book cover from 2007 |
| author | Antal Szerb |
| language | Hungarian |
| publisher | Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Rt. |
| pub_date | 1942 |
| english_pub_date | 2007 |
Oliver VII is a 1942 novel by Antal Szerb. The first English translation was published in 2007. In the book, the restless ruler of an obscure central European state plots a coup d'état against himself and escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’ experience. There he falls in with a team of con men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive levels of illusion and reality teaches him much about the world, about his own nature and the paradoxes of the human condition.
Translated from the Hungarian by Zimbabwe-British translator Len Rix, and for the reprint edition.
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