{"title":"Péter Nádas","description":"Péter Nádas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels Parallel Stories, A Book of Memories, The End of a Family Story, and Love, as well as a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge; A Lovely Tale of Photography; and Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, in western Hungary. Judith Sollosy is an editor, an academic, and a literary translator who is best known for her translations of the contemporary Hungarian authors Péter Esterházy, Mihály Kornis, Péter Nádas, and István Örkény. Her own writing on translation has appeared in PEN America, Asymptote, and Words Without Borders, among other publications.","products":[{"product_id":"shimmering-details-volume-i-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When telling one's life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself,\" Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, in his illuminating memoir, \u003ci\u003eShimmering Details\u003c\/i\u003e, the renowned author investigates what it means to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking his firmly embedded memories--the \"shimmering details\" that give this work its title--as his starting point, Nádas dissects them using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelings--all are probed for details that might allow him to reconstruct what happened, and when and where. To avoid conscious or unconscious distortions, he deconstructs the stories of others, too--moving in concentric circles toward cause and effect, until their meaning and significance come to light. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShimmering Details, Volume I\u003c\/i\u003e, Nádas probes the history of his family from the late nineteenth century to his birth in 1942 and beyond. In a work that encompasses World War II and the Hungarian Revolution, Nádas traces the hidden connections between the seemingly random events of a life and assembles them into a memoir like no other.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368264532191,"sku":"9781250338235","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JyerDeWWjQ9781250338235.webp?v=1789125140"},{"product_id":"a-book-of-memories-paperback","title":"A Book of Memories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Péter Nádas's \u003ci\u003eA Book of Memories \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369605267679,"sku":"9780312427962","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/k1KCXgDzbX9780312427962.webp?v=1789143460"},{"product_id":"love-paperback-2","title":"Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affair \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eA Book of Memories\u003c\/i\u003e we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility of love. The mysterious musicality and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Nadas's other fiction, but \u003ci\u003eLove \u003c\/i\u003eis a radical new departure.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374393557215,"sku":"9780374529550","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/12gge_dQn_9780374529550.webp?v=1789178893"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/peter-nadas.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}