· Hungarian novelist Nádas' stories are parallel in just the sense that Plutarch's lives are: They draw the reader to a moralizing conclusion. Otherwise, they are parallel only for short distances, like a train line out on the Magyar Plain, leading, as many of Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Péter Nádas's magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that link them across time and bltadwin.ru is Péter Nádas's masterpiece—eighteen years in the writing, a sensation in Hungary even before it was published, and /5(18). Parallel Stories is a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans―Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies―across the treacherous years of the mid–twentieth century. Three unusual men are at the heart of the novel: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother has ties to the fascist-Nazi collaboration of the s; Ágost Lippay Lehr, whose influential /5(18).
Parallel Stories: A Novel by Nádas, Péter and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Parallel Stories by Peter Nádas - review. Tibor Fischer is exasperated by a navel-gazing historical soup. Tibor Fischer. Fri EST. T he Germans have a lot to answer for in Hungary. "The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century"—said Susan Sontag about The Book of Memoirs () by Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas. Parallel Stories () promises and delivers even more; at the expense, though, of challenging its readers even further. In this article I concentrate on the novel's poetic structure; its representation of the.
The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Péter Nádas's magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that link them across time and bltadwin.ru is Péter Nádas's masterpiece—eighteen years in the writing, a sensation in Hungary even before it was published, and almost four years in the translating. Abstract. “The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century”—said Susan Sontag about The Book of Memoirs () by Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas. Parallel Stories () promises and delivers even more; at the expense, though, of challenging its readers even further. In this article I concentrate on the novel’s poetic structure; its representation of the individual versus the communal; and one of its deepest organizing principles, human sensuality. Parallel Stories opens with that classic gambit of crime fiction: a body is found. Found, indeed, in a park in Berlin in
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