Kirjahaku

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises 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?

For him, he invents a fantastic tapestry of stories, a family saga, a fabulous world of myths and legends. His mother dead and his father condemned by the authorities as a traitor, Simon is sent to an institution where the inmates are sentenced to silence.

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 New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, P ter N das. Now, in Fire and Knowledge, a superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism, we discover other aspects of N das's major presence in European life and letters: as a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed Europe since 1989, as a stunning literary critic, and as a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree. Here, in full, is a rich and rewarding compilation of brilliantly original, touching, witty, and thought-provoking works by one of our greatest living writers.

First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Peter Nadas's "A Book of Memories "is 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" ("The New Republic).""

Zehn Jahre hat Peter N?das an diesem Roman, einem "Meilenstein der europäischen Prosa" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), gearbeitet, mit dem er sich in die Weltliteratur eingeschrieben hat.

Peter Nadash (r. 1942) - odin iz kljuchevykh avtorov sovremennoj vengerskoj i evropejskoj literatury, reguljarno vystupaet v zhanre esse. V knige sobrany luchshie obraztsy ego intellektualnoj prozy, otrazhajuschie shirochajshij spektr javlenij kultury ot filosofii i antropologii do teatra i fotoiskusstva. V otdelnyj razdel vkljucheny esse o literature i literatorakh, a v zakljuchitelnoj chasti predstavleny teksty i intervju o sobstvennom tvorchestve Nadasha, prolivajuschie svet na genezis i ustrojstvo ego romanov "Kniga vospominanij" (1986) i "Parallelnye istorii" (2005), priznannykh vydajuschimisja svershenijami neomodernistskoj prozy. Teksty, predstavlennye v knige, publikujutsja na russkom jazyke vpervye. Evropejskaja literatura vtoroj poloviny 20-go veka, esseistika Peter Nadash (r. 1942) - odna iz tsentralnykh figur sovremennoj vengerskoj slovesnosti, prozaik, dramaturg, esseist, neodnokratno nominirovavshijsja na Nobelevskuju premiju po literature.Perevodchik: Balla O., Gusev Ju.Redaktor: Sereda V.

V prostrannom filosofskom esse "O ljubvi zemnoj i nebesnoj" vsemirno priznannyj vengerskij romanist Peter Nadash (r. 1942) issleduet nashu nesposobnost govorit o ljubvi, neumenie nakhodit slova dlja togo, chto ne daet nam pokoja. V esse, nazvanie kotorogo otsylaet k znamenitoj kartine Titsiana, razbor antichnykh mifov, "Metamorfoz" Ovidija i platonovskikh dialogov smenjaetsja analizom zhitejskikh istorij, obstsennoj leksiki i ljubovnykh norm, predpisyvaemykh ljudjam v raznykh obschestvakh. Rassuzhdenie, v kotorom razbor odnogo voprosa vedet k pojavleniju sledujuschego, a Tereza Avilskaja vstupaet v razgovor s Vitgenshtejnom, zakanchivaetsja lektsiej, v kotoroj Nadash predstavljaet sobstvennuju kontseptsiju ljubvi. Etot tekst - rabota romanista v amplua filosofa, svoego roda obratnaja parallel k "Fragmentam rechi vljublennogo" Rolana Barta.

Zs fia Ban's Night School: A Reader for Adults uses a textbook format to build an encyclopedia of life--subject by subject, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French. With subtle irony, Ban's collection of "lectures" guides readers through the importance and uses of the power of Nohoo (or "know-how"), tells of the travels of young Flaubert to Egypt with his friend Maxime, and includes a missive from Laika the dog minutes before being blasted off into space, never to be seen again. A wildly clever book that makes our all-too-familiar world appear simultaneously foreign and untamed, and brings together lust, taboos, and the absurd in order to teach us the art of living.