# A Book Of Memories

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- Authors: [Péter Nádas](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-nadas)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9976-631-5
- Pages: 720
- Published: 1998-06-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.