Against the Wall

Yates, Simon

ISBN 10: 022403524X / ISBN 13: 9780224035248

Edité par Penguin Random House, 1998

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Synopsis :

A psychological novel that is a coming-to-terms with the ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past. It is made up of three first-person narratives integrated into a work of tragic intensity.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Against the Wall
Éditeur : Penguin Random House
Date d'édition : 1998
Etat : Good
Edition : 1ST.