num_pages: 124
description: Péter Nádas is one of the most renowned contemporary Hungarian authors. A Lovely Tale of Photography displays his essentially experimental orientation. It is a hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanatorium, 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. The novel takes the form of short scenes, as if a film sequence, and this structure lends the text a fairy-tale, poetic quality similar to many surrealist works.Nominated for the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
language: English
title: Lovely Tale of Photography
titlecomplete: Lovely Tale of Photography
genres: Hungary, Fiction
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Twisted Spoon Press