Proust? Ha!
Michael Hofmann, 21 August 1997
A Book of Memories
by Péter Nádas, translated by Ivan Sanders and Imre Goldstein.
Cape, 706 pp., £16.99, August 1997,9780224035248 Show More
by Péter Nádas, translated by Ivan Sanders and Imre Goldstein.
Cape, 706 pp., £16.99, August 1997,
“... milk-filled breast; and that’s why we want our father’s red-veined cock in our mouth, too.’ Nádas’s calamitous formal innovation is the first-person omniscient narrator who is also largely his own subject. It is impossible to convey just how deadly this speaker and vantage-point are, how his orotundity anaesthetises the reader and annihilates and ... ”