Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a Hungarian literary scholar and novelist.His 1937 novel Utas és holdvilág, variously translated as The Traveler(1994), Journey by Moonlight (2001), and Traveler and the Moonlight(2016), endures as a pioneering contribution to the modernist literarycanon. Hargitai's Journey by Moonlight celebrates its first English-languagepublication and honors the memory of Antal Szerb whose life was cutshort in a Nazi labor camp. Three months before the war's end, on January27, 1945, his guards beat him to death and tossed him into an anonymousmass grave. It would take fifty years for his name to appear on a memorialwhen the novel's American translator and his university students had thename of Antal Szerb inscribed into the Holocaust Memorial wall in theCity of Miami Beach.