Parallel Stories by Nadas Peter (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This classic police-procedural scene opens an extraordinary novel, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans - Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies - across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary richly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nadas's magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny, reverberating parallels that link them across time and space.Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to dark secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s, Agost Lippay-Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary's different political regimes for decades, and Andras Rott, who has his own dark record of dark activities abroad. They are friends in Budapest when we eventually meet them in the spring of 1961, a pivotal time in the postwar epoch and in their clandestine careers. But the richly detailed, dramatic memories and actions of these men, like those of their friends, lovers and family members, range from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and of course, across Hungary. The ever-daring, ever-original episodes of Parallel Lives explore the most intimate, most difficult human experiences in a prose glowing with uncommon clarity and also with mysterious uncertainty - as is characteristic of Nadas's subtle, spirited art.The web of extended dramas in Parallel Stories reaches not just forward to the transformative year of 1989 but back to the spring of 1939, with Europe trembling on the edge of war; to the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged, the final solution devastated Hungary's Jews, and the war came to an end; and to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of October 1956. But there is much more to Parallel Stories than that: it is a daring, demanding, and very moving exploration of humanity at its most constrained and its most free. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

AudioCD. Condition: Very Good. 48 BRAND NEW AUDIO CDs SEALED in the shrink wrap. You will receive NEW AUDIO CDs. Just a bit of shelf wear to the shrink wrap. NEW AUDIO CDs inside. Gift quality for your home and library. Enjoy this NEW AUDIO CD performance.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 43,555-AB, VERY GOOD READING COPY, tight spine, clean pages, NO highlighting/markings, very good cover with edge wear/chipping.

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Bottom corner of spine heel bumped.; 9.30 X 6.30 X 2.10 inches; 1152 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. FSG, New York, 2011. First American edition. First printing. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. Purchased new, never even opened. You cannot find a better copy. Octavo, 1,152 pages. Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. The novel, which took 18 years to write, appeared in Hungary in 2005 and was published in English as one volume in 2011. Nadas' magnum opus, which weaves together the lives of Hungarian and German families across the 20th century, solidifying Nádas's reputation as one of Europe's most profound literary voices. This is Nádas's third novel, following "The End of a Family Story" and "A Book of Memories." originally published in Hungary in 2005 as "Párhuzamos történetek." F4100.…

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo viii + 1133pp., The agendas of three European men with dubious political histories converge in the aftermath of an 1989 death linked to the fates of myriad Hungarians, Jews, Germans and Gypsies across the treacherous years of the mid-20th century. Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein.…

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: In fine condition. Three non-consecutive typescript leaves, two numbered 97 and 113, extensively revised in the author's hand, with cancellations, substitutions, interlinear and marginal additions, and substantial autograph passages continuing into the lower margins and onto the versos. 3 leaves. Three heavily revised working typescript leaves from Péter Nádas's Parallel Stories, documenting the development of two chapters of one of his principal novels. Three surviving leaves from a working typescript of Péter Nádas's Párhuzamos történetek (Parallel Stories), preserving earlier states of passages later incorporated into the third volume of the novel. The sheets document the text at a stage markedly different from the version published in 2005 and show Nádas revising not only individual formulations but also the structure, sequence, and development of the narrative. Page 97 corresponds to a passage later published in the chapter "Jártam már ebben a házban" ("I've Been in This Building Before"). The narrator, standing in the apartment building associated with his childhood, struggles to understand the passage of time, the disorder of memory, and his jealousy of Klára and Simon. Much of the structure of the finished passage is already present, but the published version is considerably expanded and reworked. The leaf also preserves an earlier form of the heroine's name, "Lónyay Klára," changed in the published novel to "Vay Klára," while "Hetés Simon" becomes the fuller "Hetés Simon József." The sheet is heavily revised, with substantial autograph rewriting replacing portions of the typescript and continuing onto the verso. The unnumbered leaf is headed "Azon a ver?fényes nyári délutánon" ("On That Sunny Summer Afternoon"), an earlier form of the title eventually published as "Ez a ver?fényes nyári délután" ("This Sunny Summer Afternoon"). It preserves an earlier version of the chapter's opening, beginning with the narrator's encounters with Weisz Ilonka on the first-floor landing. The principal elements of the episode are already present: Ilonka's piano lessons, her family's poverty, the servants' staircase, and the grandmother's offer to pay for her lessons. In the published novel these elements are retained but greatly expanded and reorganized, with substantial new passages inserted between material already present in the typescript. Page 113 belongs to a later section of the same chapter and corresponds closely to the published text around III, pp. 383-384. It contains an earlier version of the narrator's imagined reconstruction of his parents' fate, including his father's torture and abandonment in the street and his fantasies concerning his mother's survival and subsequent disappearance. The latter develop into his speculation that the woman he associates with his mother may have been among the victims of the collapse of the Duna Mozi roof, may instead have survived with minor injuries, and eventually may have left the country. Several sentences survive with only minor alteration, while other parts are substantially rewritten or expanded in the published version. Taken together, the three leaves show successive levels of composition particularly clearly. Some sentences pass into the published novel almost unchanged; others are expanded into much longer passages, displaced, or recast; and still others disappear. The autograph revisions themselves frequently form an intermediate textual state between the underlying typescript and the published novel. The leaves thus provide direct evidence of Nádas's method of composition during the development of Párhuzamos történetek, preserving both the typed draft and the author's subsequent rewriting on the same sheets. Péter Nádas (1942-2026) is one of the major figures of postwar Hungarian literature. A novelist, essayist, playwright, and photographer, he established his international reputation with Emlékiratok könyve (1986; A Book of Memories), followed by Párhuzamos történetek (2005; Parallel Stories).…