In 1933 he was elected the president of the Hungarian Literary Academy and the next year published his History of Hungarian Literature, called by John Lukacs, “not only a classic but a sensitive and profound description of … the Magyar mind.” It was followed in 1941 by a three-volume History of World Literature. Throughout the second half of the 1920s he lived in France, Italy, and England, where he worked on his first book, An Outline of English Literature (1929). He studied German and English literature at the University of Budapest, receiving a PhD in 1924. Antal Szerb (1901–1945) was born in Budapest into a middle-class family that had converted from Judaism to Catholicism.
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