Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

Nadas, Peter/ Goldstein, Imre (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0312427514 / ISBN 13: 9780312427511

Published by Picador USA, 2008

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reprint edition. 391 pages. 8.50x7.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312427514
• ISBN 13: 9780312427511
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.34 kilograms

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Synopsis

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

The U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Péter Nádas. Now, in Fire and Knowledge, a superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism, we discover other aspects of Nádas'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.

About the Author

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.