| A Lovely Tale of Photography Contributor(s): Nadas, Peter (Author), Goldstein, Imre (Translator) |
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ISBN: 8090217168 ISBN-13: 9788090217164 Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press OUR PRICE: $13.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1999 Annotation: A Lovely Tale of Photography shows Nadas's essentially experimental orientation. Subtitled a "filmnovella", it is a hallucinatory story of a young female photographer suffering from an undetermined illness. She is confined to a sanatorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages. This multifaceted story has a fairy-tale, poetic quality similar to many Surrealist works. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.74" W x 8.09" (0.40 lbs) 124 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Fiction. Peter Nadas, born in 1942 in Budapest, is the author of A BOOK OF MEMORIES and THE END OF A FAMILY STORY, which have won him wide acclaim as the outstanding Hungarian writer of his time. A LOVELY TALE OF PHOTOGRAPHY is an hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanitorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than that framed by her camera. |