Aufleuchtende Details

Memory becomes world literature - Péter Nádas' autobiography of a childhood between war and post-war One of Europe's greatest storytellers looks back here on his life and childhood in a country in violent upheaval. Péter Nádas's memoirs follow the interweaving of private life stories and political upheavals in wartime and postwar Budapest not chronologically, but associatively, as in his great novels. With his narrative memory, he thus creates a deeply sensual, lasting experience. He shows those moments that make history tangible and constitute memory - precisely the "illuminating details". A contemporary historical document of tremendous narrative power.