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Overview
Péter Nádas is one of the most renowned contemporary Hungarian authors. A Lovely Tale of Photography displays his essentially experimental orientation. It is a hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanatorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than that framed by her camera. The novel takes the form of short scenes, as if a film sequence, and this structure lends the text a fairy-tale, poetic quality similar to many surrealist works.
Nominated for the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Details
- ISBN-13: 9788090217164
- ISBN-10: 8090217168
- Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
- Publish Date: November 1999
- Dimensions: 8.09 x 5.74 x 0.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 124
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