The New York Times says, “No writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory, private and collective, than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Péter Nádas.” When the Hungarian censors finally consented to letting A Book of Memories be published, it was compared to the work of Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. After its translation into English more than a decade after it appeared in Hungary, Susan Sontag called it “the greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century.” Nádas talks about the huge scope of his work, nationalism, memory, personal responsibility and history. Hosted by Daniel Mendelsohn. Introduced by Kira Brunner Don.
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