Part of Series
Em 1993, a ASA publicou na sua colecção "Letras do Mundo" o volume Trilogia da Cidade de K., que agrupava três romances de Agota Kristof—O Caderno Grande, A Prova e A Terceira Mentira. Tal volume encontra-se há muito tempo esgotado, pelo que se decidiu agora reeditar cada um dos romances, separadamente, na colecção "Pequenos Prazeres". Assim aconteceu já com O Caderno Grande, o mesmo acontece agora com A Prova. Apesar de autónomos, os três romances formam um conjunto dotado de uma extrema e paradoxal unidade. Em A Prova, através do destino separado de Lucas e Claus, os gémeos de O Caderno Grande, e mais concretamente através do percurso do primeiro, Agota Kristof vem dizer-nos mais uma vez que, num universo totalitário, a generosidade e a solidariedade são por vezes mais mortíferas do que o crime.
Author
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008. Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, promiscuous, desperate, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, desire and loss, truth and fiction. She has received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook. This novel was translated in more than 30 languages. In 1995 she published a new novel, Yesterday. Kristof also wrote a book called L'analphabète (in English The Illiterate) and published in 2004. This is an autobiographical text. It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, and over the border to Austria, and then to Switzerland. Forced to leave her country due to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better life in Zurich. The majority of her works were published by Editions du Seuil in Paris. She has two new short stories published at Mini Zoe collection entitled "Ou es-tu Mathias" and "Line, le temps". The names Mathias and Line are from her previous novels. She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel home.
