A book of memories : a novel / by Péter Nádas ; translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders with Imre Goldstein.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hungarian Publication details: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 705 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0312427964
- 9780312427962
- Emlékiratok könyve. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Nádas, Pet | Available | 33111005541525 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Péter Nádas's A Book of Memories is a modern classic, a multi-layered narrative that tells three parallel stories of love and betrayal. The first takes place in East Berlin in the 1970s and features an unnamed Hungarian writer ensnared in a love triangle with a young German and a famous aging actress. The second, composed by the writer, is the story of a late nineteenth century German aesthete whose experiences mirror his own. And the third voice is that of a friend from the writer's childhood, who brings his own unexpectedbearing to the story. Compared by critics to Proust, Mann, and Joyce, this sensuous tour de force is "unquestionably a masterpiece" ( The New Republic) .
"First published in Hungary as Emlékiratok könyve by Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó"--T.p. verso.
A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin.