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Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir

Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780374174590
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The magnum opus of one one of Europe's greatest living writers. ??nstead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others,??P?ter N?das writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling. Taking his firmly imbedded memories??he ??lluminated details??that give this work its title??s his starting point, N?das dissects their contents using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelings??ll are probed for details that might allow him to reconstruct what happened, and when and where. In order to weed out conscious or unconscious distortions, he deconstructs the stories of others, too??oving in concentric circles toward causes and circumstances, until their meaning and significance come to light. In a work that encompasses the tumultuous years of World War II and the Hungarian revolution, N?das traces the hidden connections between the events of a life and assembles them into a memoir of unusual insight and exceptional power. Hailed by Deborah Eisenberg as an ??xtraordinary writer,??N?das has confirmed his place among Europe?? greatest living authors.


  • | Author: Pter. Ndas
  • | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
  • | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 576 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0374174598
  • | ISBN-13: 9780374174590
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