tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post8984781317042994772..comments2023-11-22T04:10:49.266-05:00Comments on Dispatches from Zembla: Peter Nadas ProfileAlokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-10485177485108701862007-11-07T19:54:00.000-05:002007-11-07T19:54:00.000-05:00I will check out his THe End of Family Story soon....I will check out his THe End of Family Story soon. Was just looking at it in the library. Book of Memories seems to be too big a book for me right now. <BR/><BR/>Agree, 99% of the time such comparison with Proust and Mann and Joyce doesn't mean anything. Except perhaps the similarity in size...Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-37371822107815127282007-11-07T18:56:00.000-05:002007-11-07T18:56:00.000-05:00i did like the book of memories a lot when i was y...i did like the book of memories a lot when i was younger and then i read all i could get from Nadas. Lots of great psychological insights and i do think this connection to Th. Mann is as usual idle talk from the reviewers. That said i somehow seldom managed to read his books for a second time, found them lacking some "metaphysical" depth and also a bit sentimental, but on the whole they are a lot better of what is ususally being sold these days and they are easy to read & melancholy and what he is really good at is describing the world of children, their fears and little secrets and dreams and phantasies. These passages about children or teenagers belong to the greatest in his books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-41208693122529600732007-11-07T03:21:00.000-05:002007-11-07T03:21:00.000-05:00Hey, check out the blog novelhttp://theaphrodisiac...Hey, check out the blog novel<BR/>http://theaphrodisiac.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com