ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The U.S. publication ofA Book of Memoriesin 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Péter Nádas. Now, inFire and Knowledge, a superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism, we discover other aspects of Nádas's major presence in European life and letters: as a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed Europe since 1989, as a stunning literary critic, and as a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree. Here, in full, is a rich and rewarding compilation of brilliantly original, touching, witty, and thought-provoking works by one of our greatest living writers.