Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
Traces the fate of myriad Europeans - Hungarians, Jews, Germans, and Gypsies - across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. This title covers not only the transformative year of 1989 but also the spring of 1939, with Europe trembling on the edge of war; to the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged.
A virtuoso combination of nineteenth-century high realism with the experimentalism of the nouveau roman..the real narrative is that of bodies' actions on one another, their attraction and desires, their mutual memories -- Gábor Csordás
No writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory, private and collective, than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Peter Nadas * New York Times *
It's with remarkable dexterity that Nadas splices together the political, sexual and emotional histories of two families, the Hungarian Lippay Lehrs and the German Döhrings -- Thomas Marks * Telegraph *
A fiendishly complex plot that leaps in time throughout the 20th century, and in a place through Mitteleuropa -- Toby Clements * Sunday Telegraph *
Nadas is closer to Proust and Musil, and even to Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, in his ultra-Freudian, or Lacanian approach... There are instances of real enchantment in Nadas' book -- George Gomori * Literary Review *
No writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory, private and collective, than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Peter Nadas * New York Times *
It's with remarkable dexterity that Nadas splices together the political, sexual and emotional histories of two families, the Hungarian Lippay Lehrs and the German Döhrings -- Thomas Marks * Telegraph *
A fiendishly complex plot that leaps in time throughout the 20th century, and in a place through Mitteleuropa -- Toby Clements * Sunday Telegraph *
Nadas is closer to Proust and Musil, and even to Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, in his ultra-Freudian, or Lacanian approach... There are instances of real enchantment in Nadas' book -- George Gomori * Literary Review *
Peter Nádas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels A Book of Memories, The End of a Family Story, and Love; a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Péter Nádas: Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224094009 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224094009 |
| Title | Parallel Stories |
| Author | Péter Nádas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 1152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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