Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Péter Nádas<br />
Own Death<br />
“I looked into its filmy eyes inquisitively and saw it was the body’s fear, not mine, not the soul’s, and so it was fear of<br />
death. I realised I could distinguish between my inner self and my physical body... An ice-cold surface covered my inner<br />
heat.” Péter Nádas<br />
In this short story a man relates his innermost thoughts as he suffers a heart attack on the street and is then brought<br />
back to life after three and a half minutes. It is a compelling tale of something appalling and completely ordinary, of pain<br />
and fear and acceptance, while walking the thin line between life and death. In contrast to the speed of this near-death<br />
experience, Own Death includes a series of photos in which the passage of time is hardly apparent. Over the course<br />
of a year the author photographed a wild pear tree in his garden at different times of the day, recording its changes under<br />
a range of light conditions. Own Death contrasts perceptions of the here and now with the hereafter, and its complex<br />
composition alludes to the passage of mortal time.<br />
Péter Nádas, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1942, worked as a press photographer before becoming a writer. His first<br />
book of stories was published in 1967 and his bestselling novel, A Book of Memories, was published in 1986. Nádas<br />
is among the most important authors of our time and has received numerous prizes including the Austrian State Prize<br />
for European Literature, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and the Kossuth Prize. <strong>Steidl</strong> published<br />
Nádas’ Etwas Licht in 1991.<br />
Péter Nádas<br />
Own Death<br />
Book design by Hans Werner Holzwarth<br />
287 pages<br />
7.3 x 10.2 in. / 18.5 x 26 cm<br />
162 photographs<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket<br />
€ 40.00 / £ 30.00 / US$ 50.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86521-010-4<br />
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