The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining. Or is it between life and death? (20010730)

Love

Literature & Fiction

Nádas, Péter

Contemporary

Vintage

The End Of A Family Story

A Book Of Memories

A collection of three tales captures the struggles and triumphs of people living with the horrific memories of Europe's recent past and the artistic repression they faced. Reprint.

A Book of Memories

Literary

Penguin??Books

The Hungarian author's first novella, originally published in 1977, features a boy living in Hungary under communist repression who finds refuge in extravagant storytelling. By the author of A Book of Memories. Reprint.

The End of a Family Story

Genre Fiction

Penguin Group USA

A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives. The first is of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love. The second is about a refined 'belle epoque aesthete. The third is that of a childhood friend, and an account of their friendship. All three are a powerful work of tragic intensity.

Sanders, Ivan & Goldstein, Imre (translators)

JONATHAN CAPE.

Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Péter Nádas. Now, in Fire and Knowledge, a superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism, we discover other aspects of Nádas's major presence in European life and letters: as a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed Europe since 1989, as a stunning literary critic, and as a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree. Here, in full, is a rich and rewarding compilation of brilliantly original, touching, witty, and thought-provoking works by one of our greatest living writers.

Essays & Correspondence

Picador

A Book of Memories: A Novel

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 unexpected bearing to the story. Compared by critics to Proust, Mann, and Joyce, this sensuous tour de force is "unquestionably a masterpiece" (The New Republic).

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

It is the 1950s, in Hungary, when Stalinist repression has reduced the populace to silence and deception. The narrator, a young boy, lives alone with his grandparents. His rebellious, talkative grandfather, refusing to submit to the implacable realities, flees to his memories of the past, in which he believes he can still find redemption, and for his grandson, he weaves a fantastic tapestry of stories of family sagas. His myths and legends depict the luxuriant history of a family with both Christian and Jewish roots, and of a people who, having denied the Messiah, must legitimate their faith and expiate their sins over thousands of years. And, as he talks, he teaches the boy that, however wild and wondrous the stories may seem, every sentence in them is "a unit of truth." Simultaneously, another terrible story is engaging both the storyteller and the boy. Together they realize that the boy's father, a government official, has betrayed his family and friends, and is now being named a traitor by the authorities. Liberated into sincerity and freedom by his grandfather's stories, the boy gives dark and passionate testimony to the alienation and treason of a sinister adult world. And finally we see how his family story will end.

The End of a Family Story: A Novel

Goldshtain, Imri

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Love

The End Of A Family Story

A Book Of Memories

A Book of Memories

The End of a Family Story

A Book of Memories

Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

A Book of Memories: A Novel

A Book of Memories: A Novel

The End of a Family Story: A Novel