"Siberian Garrison" by Rodion Markovits, translated from the Hungarian, published by Peter Davies, London, 1929, First Edition of English version, First Printing with '1929' on the title page and "Published in December 1929" without any other printings on the copyright page.

This novel is based on the author's adventures in Siberia during the WWI and Russian Civil War.

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth with black stamping on spine [a little soiling and wear, 5" x 8"; 387 pages, very good condition.

"Sziberiai Garnizon" was originally serialized by Keleti Ujsag during 1927. The next year, it was reissued as two volumes. These caught the eye of fellow writer Lajos Hatvany, who undertook their translation into German, for Vossischen Zeitung and later for Ullstein-Verlag. The 1929 English version by George Halasz was published in the Great Britain by Peter Davies and in the United States by Horace Liveright, and the first print was exhausted over a few months. A French translation was published by Editions Payot in 1930.

The books were translated into some 12 other languages before 1933, reaching as far as Asia and South America, and making Markovits an international celebrity of the interwar period. According to cultural historian Ivan Sanders, Markovits was, "for a time, the best-known Transylvanian writer in the world." As commentators have since noted, Sziberiai garnizon also announced to the world that Hungarian literature in Transylvania was coming of age, even though its subject and content were largely dissonant with the aims of Transylvania's existing literary clubs.

Rodion Markovits (1888-1948) was an Austro-Hungarian-born writer, journalist and lawyer, one of the early modernist contributors to Magyar literary culture in Transylvania and Banat regions. He achieved international fame with the extended reportage Sziberiai garnizon ("Siberian Garrison", 1927-8), which chronicles his own exotic experiences in World War I and the Russian Civil War. Locally, he is also known for his lifelong contribution to the political and cultural press of Transylvania.

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