The Withering World

First translation of Marai’s poems into English. Here presented in a dual-language edition. Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and translator of poetry that Sandor Marai – the acclaimed author of Embers and Conversations in Bolzano – first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Marai’s poems in the English language – here presented in John Ridland’s and Peter V. Czipott’s brilliant verse translation – offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author’s whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression.