Fiction. Peter Nadas, born in 1942 in Budapest, is the author of A BOOK OF MEMOR
IES and THE END OF A FAMILY STORY, which have won him wide acclaim as the outsta
nding Hungarian writer of his time. A LOVELY TALE OF PHOTOGRAPHY is an hallucina
tory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined i
llness. Confined to a sanitorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock cha
racters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than
that framed by her camera.