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Parallel Stories: A Novel di Péter Nádas
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Parallel Stories: A Novel (originale 2005; edizione 2012)

di Péter Nádas (Autore), Imre Goldstein (Traduttore)

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The agendas of three European men with dubious political histories converge in the aftermath of an 1989 death linked to the fates of myriad Hungarians, Jews, Germans and Gypsies across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.
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Titolo:Parallel Stories: A Novel
Autori:Péter Nádas (Autore)
Altri autori:Imre Goldstein (Traduttore)
Info:Picador (2012), Edition: Parallel Stories, 1152 pages
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Parallel Stories di Péter Nádas (Author) (2005)

  1. 10
    2666: La parte dei critici - La parte di Amalfitano - La parte di Fate di Roberto Bolaño (southernbooklady)
    southernbooklady: Despite the differences in the authors' origins, settings, and writing styles, there is something in each that reminds me of the other. Scale, breadth, maybe. Sharp and wise characterizations, sure. But more the sort of conflicted feelings of compassion, horror, and futility that each writer rouses in the reader.… (altro)
  2. 10
    Le braci di Sándor Márai (charlie68)
    charlie68: Similar vein of Hungarian Literature .
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    The Bridge at Andau di James A. Michener (charlie68)
    charlie68: Fictionalized account of the Hungarian Uprising. Features prominently in the book.
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    Collected Stories di Jorge Luis Borges (charlie68)
    charlie68: Both contain stories that will expand the mind.
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Based on other reviews I read of this novel, I felt I would be gaining some interesting, intelligent, and well thought out insights into how the people of Hungary dealt with the atrocities committed against them by The Germans during World War Two, and then by The Russians during The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Sadly, that was not the case. Because, while yes, these moments in history were covered; so,so,so much of this novel revolved around the degenerate,deviant, and perverse sexual acts of the characters. And if that weren't enough, these same characters also have sexual fantasies, which are of course, even more extreme. Seeing that this novel contained over a 1,000 pages you'd think the author could have found ways to include topics of a more noble nature, rather than focusing so much on the characters depravities. For me, this novel was a huge disappointment. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
For a more detailed review of Parallel Stories, I'll insist that you read Tod's review here on Goodreads and Scott Esposito's wonderful review—and one with which I agree wholeheartedly—in the Barnes & Noble Review.

Nádas has certainly written a monumental exploration of time, history, belonging, estrangement, and how the personal and the political affect individuals and their relationships with others. Roughly speaking, Parallel Stories centralizes the Lippy-Lehr and the Dohring families, exploring main members of each family, their lovers and more distant relations, their friends, and even the friends of their friends.

While such a project, especially one of this length, could easily have been labeled a group of short stories with a loose theme tying them all together, Nádas does indeed succeed at making Parallel Stories a novel. However, if his claim—as he has stated—was to create "a monument to incompleteness," the length of this novel is a problem: there is nothing that warrants such a lengthy examination (which results, at some points in iterative narrative arcs and redundant—because they are repeated so often—flashbacks in history), and this novel would have greatly benefited from a more concise and less broad structure.

There are some Proustian moments here, an author with whom Nádas is often compared; but whereas Proust's project actually solicits the volumes it takes for his narrator to reach the end of the Recherche, nothing in Parallel Stories does. The philosophical investigations here on time, history, individuality, isolation, desire, and self-annihilation do have their moments of brave insight and often prophetic assessments of our relation to our histories and to history itself, but Nádas often loses track quickly and focuses (almost solely) on the body, defecation, fluids, and sex. I agree with Scott Espositio's review to which I've linked above in that these Proustian moments are mixed with a kind of nineteenth-century realism which seems at odds with Nádas's project entirely, and so this works to make Parallel Stories a less effective work—mixing experimental, nonlinear writing with more cliched and hackneyed plot lines—than had Nádas stayed within the medium of memory and shifting temporalities. ( )
  proustitute | Apr 2, 2023 |
3.25. ( )
  DanielSTJ | Apr 30, 2022 |
The flammable human colloid gathered in the ditches, fat and marrow arranged in fine layers according to their relative density; the religion teach or the retired banker watched as fires burst to life with fat and flames flaring up from the depths.

This particular scene is not indicative of the spiralling core of Parallel Stories. The novel's soul is of a softer vice, one more suggestive, dispiriting and, often, spermy.

The action occurs largely in Budapest and Berlin, though other destinations in Hungary and Germany are featured. There are three timelines: 1) both before and during the Second World War, 2) 1956 and 3) 1989. The prose floats from scene to scene, often returning to an earlier situation but from a different perspective, gradually something else occurs. Associations are made. Narratives are linked. Accounts unravel and are dispelled. Sins are not confessed. Doubts linger. A Cubist gestalt doesn't quite triumph, but a sense-making (to paraphrase Herr H) stains as it signifies.

I read most of this while in Berlin, most of which over a single weekend as I was recovering from a classic case of cobble-hobbled knee. I was asked about the book by my mother-in-law. She asked with a smile. I had just read an account of a shadowy orgy in a filthy public restroom. I sensed she KNEW. I blushed and felt dirty.

There are a host of disorders swimming through the protagonists. Despite the grotesque trappings, none of those afflcited appeared contrived, nor entirely foreign. Péter Nádas has a penned an ugly work, one which may be one of the most important novels of the last 20 years. ( )
  jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
Ich glaube es kaum, ich habe es geschafft. 1724 Seiten sind gelesen - und die waren nun wirklich keine Wonne. Wer immer sich an dieses Buch heranwagt, der/dem sollte klar sein, dass es sich um keine durchgängige Geschichte handelt. Einzelne Personen bzw. Familien tauchen zwar immer wieder auf, doch stets wird auch die Gelegenheit genutzt, den Spuren anderer Personen zu folgen. Hauptsächlich ereignen sich die Begebenheiten in Ungarn zu Ende der 60er Jahre und kurz oder während des Ungarnaufstandes 1956/57 sowie in Deutschland kurz vor (oder nach) der Jahrtausendwende und während des Dritten Reiches. Die Geschichten springen hin und her und das einzig Verbindende sind insbesondere im ersten und zweiten Teil die Fixiertheit des Autors auf die Beschäftigung mit Geschlechtsorganen und der Verdauungstätigkeit. Ach ja, und die fast durchgehend meist zutiefst unglücklichen Protagonisten, eingebunden in Zwänge und Pflichten die sie nicht wollen. Zudem sind sie fast alle zumindest latent schwul oder lesbisch. So etwas mag im Einzelfall vielleicht schön zu lesen sein, aber über 1724 Seiten wieder und wieder - sorry, das ist einfach nervig.
Falls es so etwas wie einen roten Faden oder einen Mittelpunkt gibt, ist der vielleicht am ehesten bei der Familie Lehr aus Budapest zu finden. Professor Lehr, frührer Berater der Nazis, jetzt der Kommunisten, liegt im Sterben. Seine unglückliche Ehefrau Erna trauert der Liebe zu einer Niederländerin nach, die einzige Tochter wurde verschleppt und tauchte nie wieder auf und Agóst, der einige Sohn, lebt seit seiner Rückkehr aus dem Ausland, wo er als Spion arbeitete, mit seiner momentanen Freundin Gyöngyver wieder daheim. Dazu kommt noch Kristof, der Neffe Ernas, dessen Mutter mit einer Frau nach Paris verschwand und dessen Vater von seinen Genossen hingerichtet wurde. Er träumt von Erlebnissen mit Männern, traut sich aber kaum, diese Träume auch zu verwirklichen. Gyöngyver träumt von einer Karriere als Sängerin, bisher aber recht erfolglos und fühlt sich erstaunlicherweise von Erna angezogen, wie auch andersherum. Dann gibt es noch Agósts Freunde, von denen aus eine Verbindung ins Dritte Reich besteht, die ebenfalls erzählt wird. Ernas Kartenrunde, ein deutsches KZ mit Wärtern und Aufsehern, deren Nachkommen ebenfalls eine Rolle spielen undundund. Dies könnten alles wirklich spannende und unterhaltende Geschichten sein, wenn Nádas nicht so unglaublich langatmig erzählen würde. 50 Seiten über einen Geschlechtsakt, der weder unterhaltsam noch erotisch ist sondern schlicht sachlich technisch und unterkühlt. Seitenlange Pseudobeziehungsgespräche oder Selbstreflexionen, die ohne Ergebnis enden - 700 bis 800 Seiten weniger hätten dem Buch sicherlich gut getan.
Dass Nádas jedoch gut erzählen kann, merkt man auch in diesem Mammutwälzer: Einzelne Kapitel sind packend und fesselnd erzählt und immer wieder kommt es vor, dass man vor Spannung oder Abscheu die Luft anhält. Leider viel zu selten.
Zuguterletzt kann ich nur noch schreiben dass ich hoffe, dass der Autor nicht dieselbe Überzeugung hat, die dieses Buch mir vermittelt. Dass die Menschen grundsätzlich triebhafte Lebewesen sind, die nur durch Zwänge von außen bzw. selbstauferlegte unter Kontrolle zu halten sind. Fallen diese Zwänge weg, bricht das Animalische aus, dass sich ansonsten nur beim Sex oder diesen vielfach beschriebenen Verdauungstätigkeiten einen Weg bahnt. Und dieses Animalische endet dann in einer Katastrophe, wie uns das Schicksal Balters im letzten Kapitel zeigt, oder beispielsweise die Geschichte der Juden im Dritten Reich. Denn machten sich die Nazis nicht frei? Arbeit macht frei? ( )
  Xirxe | Dec 2, 2014 |
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Nádas, PéterAutoreautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Goldstein, ImreTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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