Shimmering Details, Volume II

A Memoir

By: Péter Nádas; Translated from the Hungarian by Judith Sollosy

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Hardcover | 12 March 2024

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528 Pages

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The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers.

"Instead 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--the "illuminated details" that give this work its title--as his starting point, N das dissects their contents using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelings--all 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--moving 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 "extraordinary writer," N das has confirmed his place among Europe's greatest living authors.

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