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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.

A Book Of Memories

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A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 04/06/1998
    ISBN13: 9780099766315, 978-0099766315
    ISBN10: 0099766310

    Number of Pages: 720

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

    Description

    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.

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