A Book Of Memories

von Péter Nádas

720 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Vintage
• ISBN: 9780099766315
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.1998
• Größe: 197 x 128 mm
• Verlag: DK Children