Fire and Knowledge - by Péter Nádas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice<br></b><br>The U.S. publication of <i>A Book of Memories </i>in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Péter Nádas. Now, in <i>Fire and Knowledge</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The stories are effortlessly wonderful. The essays are more chewy--what one imagines Milan Kundera might sound like before his first cup of coffee. . . . [Nádas] has Lawrence's symbolic facility without his thumping self-consciousness, and an endless tenderness for the detail of overlooked lives. . . . Every story here reminds us that fiction can tell the truth as well as nonfiction--or even better." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"[Nádas] has quickly been canonized as a latter-day Eastern European Proust or Mann. . . . This gently chaotic and revealing scrapbook is a must-have for serious European literature collections." --<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"Highly recommended . . . Nádas gives readers page after page of thought-provoking and deeply insightful intellectual enjoyment as well as a soul-baring glimpse into his internal struggles with such issues as capital punishment, depression, writing, religion, and fate. . . . Readers will be drawn into the very private lives of his characters, investing themselves in their every word and deed." --<i>Library Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Péter Nádas</b> is the author of the novels <i>A Book of Memories</i>, <i>The End of a Family Story</i>, and <i>Love. </i>He lives in Gombosszeg, in western Hungary.</p>
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