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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

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  • 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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