A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives:
The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator''s adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family
A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator''s own experiences.
A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator''s return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship
Together these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
720 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Vintage Publishing |
| Utgivningsdatum |
1998-06-04 |
| ISBN |
9780099766315 |
