books by Peter Nadas (photography erinnerung european)

books by Peter Nadas

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6 reviews
Peter Nadas

Jonathan Cape, 1997

Kudos!
I love the fact that this book was written and published. It proves that not only books about climbing disasters can be interesting reading. While the action does not measure up your guts and gore climbing books, this should not be dismissed as dull. It is a story of your more typical, hard, first ascent and a fine read.

A Lovely Tale of Photography

3 reviews
Peter Nadas

Twisted Spoon Press, 1999

Elusive
"A Lovely Tale of Photography" is the third work of Peter Nadas to be translated into English, following the Hungarian writer's monumental "A Book of Memories" (1997) and "The End of a Family Story" (1998). One might be misled by the slimness of the current volume (120pp) into believing it to be his most accessible work; however, it is truly a complex piece that is the descendant of the ...

LOVE

2 reviews
PETER NADAS

VINTAGE, 2001

Not terrible...
This wasn't a terrible book. The story takes place in a bedroom after smoking a couple of joints. We are treated to the narration from the paranoid mind of the main character, whose ruminations, while painfully unceasing, at times are insightful. I understand where Nadas was trying to go with this, but I think, even with the short length, that without any breaks in the narration from the ...

Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910¿1930

1 review

The MIT Press, 2002

Central European Avant-Gardes
A handsome catalogue of the exhibition that Benson, head of the Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, curated at LACMA, and sent on to Munich and Berlin. The design of the bookÑby Scott Taylor with Katherine GoÑperfectly captures the impassioned experimentation that occurred in cities all over central Europe before it was snuffed out by political reactionaries who hated free-thinking ...

A Book of Memories

13 reviews
Peter Nadas, 1998

A Twentieth Century Masterpiece, and Absolutely Worth the Effort
I decided to review this work in an attempt to counter some of the other tepid responses which, frankly, almost disssuaded me from starting the novel at all. But memories of a rave from Susan Sontag in The New Yorker a number of years ago caused me to persist, and I'm glad I did. This is a major novel -- a long, languid, occasionally frustrating one, granted, but one that nevertheless rewards a ...

The End of a Family Story

1 review
Peter Nadas

Vintage, 2000

Childhood's innocence
To begin, there are a few reasons I enjoyed this story of a childhood in a different part of the world: one, the interplay of childhood imagination with reality and second, the genealogical history of the family's heritage through beautiful stories told by the grandfather and by the child's witness to contemporary events. Personally speaking, reading this beautiful story was an hypnotic ...