The Adventures of Sindbad / / Gyula Krúdy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Krúdy, Gyula,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. He is by nature a melancholy sensualist, but whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire, or he of theirs, is a moot question. These short stories flow without a strict narrative framework Sindbad journeys between the past and the present and is merely a ghost in many of his adventures. Although Sindbad can move through time, it is time that proves his chief enemy, and youth that remains his real love. This deeply autumnal book, full of resonances and associations, is an erotic elegy to the dying Habsburg Empire. The stories are taken from the omnibus triple-volume Hungarian edition published as The Three Books of Sindbad in Hungary in 1944, which includes The Travels of Sindbad (1912), The Resurrection of Sindbad (1916), and The Youth and Grief of Sindbad (1917).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Youth -- Sindbad's Dream -- By the Danube -- Sindbad and the Actress -- Winter Journey -- The Secret Room -- Escape from Women -- Mrs Banati, the Lost Woman -- The Green Veil -- The Night Visitor -- An Overnight Stay -- Sumach Trees in Blossom -- Rozina -- The Unforgettable Compliment -- Sentimental Journey -- The Children's Eyes -- Mine -- The Woman Who Told Tales -- Albert Finds New Employment -- The Red Ox -- Marabou -- Madness from beyond the Grave -- Escape from Life -- Escape from Death -- Notes -- Central European Classics