the newlyweds leads to Mihály's detached self-recognition: he is not ready to be Erzsi's husband. He then leaves his wife for his own journey through the Italian countryside and eventually Rome - figuratively tracing the sparkling fanaticisms of his juvenile imagination, even rekindling bonds with changed (and some unchanged) childhood friends - all among the impressive foreign landscapes and peculiar liveliness of its inhabitants. Szerb celebrates the exotic cult of Italy, the leitmotif of thousands of writers from the past and present, relaying his own travel impressions of Italy though the mind of his eccentric protagonist, Mihály. Szerb explores the altogether interrelatedness of love and youthfulness within bourgeois society. The Third Tower Szerb also published an interesting diary, The Third Tower, recounting his travels to the cities in the north of Italy - Venice, Bologna, Ravenna. Before going back home, he visited San Marino, Europe's oldest state, and Montale (San Marino) inspired the title of the book. The diary is divided into paragraphs which alternate descriptions with his personal thoughts. Selected bibliography , 1927 , 1936 , 1927 William Blake, 1928 , 1929 ("An Outline of English Literature") , 1929 , 1929 , 1929 Cynthia, 1932 , 1934 ("History of Hungarian literature") , 1934 tr.: The Pendragon Legend, , 2006 , 1935 (short stories) tr.: Love in a Bottle, , 2010 , 1935 tr.: A Martian's Guide to Budapest, , 2015 , 1936 tr.: The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy, , 2014 , 1936 ("The Quest for the Miraculous: Survey and Problematic in the Modern Novel") , 1937 tr.: The Traveler translated by Peter Hargitai, Püski-Corvin Press NY, NY, USA. 1994. tr.: Journey by Moonlight, , 2014 Don't say... but say..., 1939 , 1941 ("History of World Literature") , 1943 ("Oliver VII," published under the pseudonym A. H. Redcliff) tr.: Oliver VII , 2007 , 1943 tr.: The Queen's Necklace, , 2009 , 1943/1944 ("100 poems") Translations English The Traveler (1994) (earliest translation of ) Journey by Moonlight (2002) , 9781906548506 The Pendragon Legend (2006) (another translation published 1963) Oliver VII (2007) The Queen's Necklace (2009) Love in a Bottle (2010) Journey by Moonlight (2014) The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy (2014) A Martian's Guide to Budapest (2015) Traveler and the Moonlight (2016) Czech 1946 1985 1998 Dutch 2007 2005 Audiobook 2006 Finnish 2008 French 1990 1992 German 1966 1978 2004 1974 2003 2005 (older translation of ) 1966 1972