Traveling around a wild pear: a collection of little prose. Nadash Peter

Peter Nadash (b. 1942) - Hungarian prose writer, who gained worldwide fame primarily due to his grandiose novels The Book of Memoirs (1986, Russian translation of 2014) and “Parallel stories” (2005). This publication serves as a kind of introduction to the work of this, not well readly read in Russia, the classic of modern literature. The book covers more than half a century of his work and includes seven important things, starting with the debut story “The Bible”, in which the twenty-year-old author began to realize his youthful plan “to describe everything, that people are inhibited from each other,” and ending with “the salt of life " - an ironic traveler, in which Nadash, unexpectedly changing the scale, analyzes not the micro -motion of the thoughts and feelings of contemporaries, but the mechanism of historical changes on the example of a small European town. In the center of the book is an amazing text: the philosophical story “Own Death” about the clinical death experienced by the author in 1993. Translations printed earlier are published in the new edition.

“Since I settled near this huge pear, I don’t need to get out of the place to see something in the distance or look into the past.”