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Book SynopsisThe magnum opus of one of Europe''s greatest living writers.
When telling one's life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself, Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir, Shimmering Details, the renowned author investigates what it means to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.
Taking his firmly embedded memoriesthe shimmering details that give this work its titleas his starting point, Nádas dissects them using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelingsall are probed for details that might allow him to reconstruct what happened, and when and where. To avoid conscious or unconscious distortions, he deconstructs the stories of others, toomoving in concentric circles toward cause and effect, until their meaning and significance come to light.
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