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5.0 out of 5 stars
Astonishing mind, language, and scope.,
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This review is from: Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays (Hardcover)
Nadas' essays on culture change and boundedness are as stimulating as the best in the best-taught seminars of US colleges and universities. (His novels have different virtues and challenges.) The essays bear study and rereading in the ways great plays reward repeat visits. The paradigms, as in Fate and Technique are as rich, persuasive, and powerful as any in Western culture. The essay on some Russian stage productions of Hamlet is deeper, richer, and more vivid than any I read in years of theater study.
It is astonishing that translator Imre Goldstein could convey the wit, vocabulary, and range of language usage of the author writing sometimes from a child's viewpoint, and at others as a rival to the great 20th century and current critics of culture and politics. Like great film and stage directors who inspire great production work from collaborating artists, Nadas has attracted the best collaborator and translator here, (as he did, too, in Peter Forgacs screen adaptation of his "Own Death." FSG's printing is top rate. |
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Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays by Peter Nadas (Paperback - July 22, 2008)
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