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Péter Nádas


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
October 14, 1942

Died
August 26, 2026

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, magical realism


Hungarian novelist, essayist, and dramatist, a major central European literary figure. Nádas made his international breakthrough with the monumental novel A Book of Memories (1986), a psychological novel following the tradition of Proust, Thomas Mann, and magic realism.

Péter Nádas was born in Budapest, as the son of a high-ranking party functionary. Nádas's grandfather, Moritz Grünfeld, changed his name into Hungarian, which was considered a scandal in the family. Nádas's youth was shadowed by the loss of his parents. Nádas's mother died of cancer when he was young and his father committed suicide. At the age of 16 his uncle gave him a camera, and after dropping out of school Nádas turned to photojournalism. During the late 1960s and early ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 4,192 ratings · 548 reviews · 115 distinct works • Similar authors
A Book of Memories
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4.06 avg rating — 699 ratings — published 1986 — 55 editions
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Parallel Stories
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3.80 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 2005 — 32 editions
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The End of a Family Story
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3.52 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1977 — 43 editions
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A Biblia
3.89 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1967
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Own Death
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3.93 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions
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Rémtörténetek
3.88 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions
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Párhuzamos történetek 1. A ...
3.91 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Love
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2.93 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1979 — 18 editions
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Világló részletek I-II.
4.45 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2017
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“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.”
― Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgounds
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“By fantasizing one builds a more predictable world, and then one has no time to notice what is really happening, because of the din made by one's expectations crashing down.”
― Peter Nadas, Parallel Stories: A Novel
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“Hardly anything remained of which he could speak aloud.”
― Peter Nadas, Parallel Stories: A Novel
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