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050 00 $aPH3291.N297$bA2 2007
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100 1 $aNádas, Péter,$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78044024
240 10 $aWorks.$kSelections.$lEnglish.$f2007$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006084113
245 10 $aFire and knowledge :$bfiction and essays /$cPéter Nádas ; translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2007.
300 $a391 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tThe great Christmas killing -- $tLiar, cheater -- $tThe Bible -- $tHomecoming -- $tLittle Alex -- $tOn Thomas Mann's diaries -- $tThe lamb -- $tHamlet is free -- $tLady Klara's house -- $tMelancholy -- $tVivisection -- $tA tale of fire and knowledge -- $tFamily picture in purple dusk -- $tOur poor, poor Sascha Anderson -- $tWork song -- $tMinotaur -- $tFate and technique -- $tMeeting God -- $tParasitic systems -- $tAt the muddy sources of appearances -- $tThe citizen of the world and the he-goat -- $tClogged pain -- $tWay.
520 1 $a"The publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to English-language readers the work of an extraordinary novelist, an artist whom critics easily compared to Robert Musil, James Joyce, and Thomas Mann. Now, in the diverse essays and stories gathered in Fire and Knowledge, we discover other aspects of Peter Nadas's accomplishments, and the reasons for his commanding presence in European life and letters. As the writing collected here makes clear, he is a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed Hungary and all of Europe since 1989, a stunning literary critic, a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree, and a moralist with a discerning eye for the crippling effects of deception and hypocrisy." "Fire and Knowledge also acquaints us more fully with Nadas's evolution as a writer of fiction, for it includes stories dating from the 1960s and 1970s when he had to write in extremely stringent, sometimes dangerous circumstances and was often kept from publishing - as well as stories from more recent years, since the publication of his major novels and the reintegration of Western and Eastern Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aNádas, Péter,$d1942-$vTranslations into English.
700 1 $aGoldstein, Imre,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89102485
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036749.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006036749-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006036749-d.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPH3291.N297$iA2 2007