A Book of Memories: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Nadas, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374115435 ISBN 13 : 9780374115432

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Nadas Peter Goldshtain Amri

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives:

The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family.

A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences.

A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator's return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship.

Together these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.

Revue de presse :

"Original and exhilarating work that demands to be read again" (Sunday Times)

"The greatest novel written in our time, one of the great books of the century" (Susan Sontag)

"One of the most important novels of our time" (Times Literary Supplement)

"The monumental event of recent Hungarian history, the fated uprising of 1956, is accounted for in the most affecting manner imaginable in these haunted pages" (Daily Telegraph)

"What makes this Book of Memories so memorable is the sheer quality of the prose, its subtlety and intelligence, which shines through what seems an elegant and unobtrusively American translation" (The Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0374115435
• ISBN 13: 9780374115432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 705