Fire and Knowledge

A New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceThe U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist Péter Nádas. Now in Fire and Knowledge a superb collection of short stories essays and literary criticism we discover other aspects of Nádas''s major presence in European life and letters: as a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed Europe since 1989 as a stunning literary critic and as a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree. Here in full is a rich and rewarding compilation of brilliantly original touching witty and thought-provoking works by one of our greatest living writers.