Golden Adele. Essays on Art

Péter Nadas - one of the key authors of contemporary Hungarian and European literature, regularly writes in the essay genre. The book collects the best examples of his intellectual prose, reflecting a wide range of cultural phenomena from philosophy and anthropology to theater and photographic art. A separate section includes essays on literature and writers, and the concluding part presents texts and interviews about Nadas's own work, shedding light on the genesis and structure of his novels «The Book of Memories» (1986) and «Parallel Histories» (2005), recognized as outstanding achievements of neo-modernist prose.
The texts presented in the book are published in Russian for the first time.
European literature of the second half of the 20th century, the essays of Péter Nadas (b. 1942) — one of the central figures of contemporary Hungarian literature, a prose writer, playwright, essayist, who has been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.