Love / a novel by Péter Nádas ; translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nádas, Péter, 1942-

Contributor:

Goldstein, Imre, 1938-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Szerelem. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Hallucinations and illusions--Fiction.

Hallucinations and illusions.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Summary:

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining. Or is it between life and death?

From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories -- "a major writer of the twentieth century", as Ilan Stavans called him in The Times Literary Supplement -- we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility, but the redeeming necessity, of love. The mysterious music and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Peter Nadas's other fiction, but Love is a radical new departure.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374192286

OCLC:

43634851