The burning of the world

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"--

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

People: Béla Zombory-Moldován (1885-1967)

Places: Hungary

Times: 1867-1918