The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United
States's greatest authors, critics, and tastemakers, In Partial Disgrace
is a sprawling self-contained trilogy chronicling the troubled history
of a small Central European nation bearing certain similarities to
Hungary--and whose rise and fall might be said to parallel the strange
contortions taken by Western political and literary thought over the
course of the twentieth century. More than twenty years in the making,
and containing a cast of characters, breadth of insight, and degree of
stylistic legerdemain to rival such staggering achievements as William
H. Gass's The Tunnel, Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Robert Coover's The
Public Burning, or Péter Nádas's Parallel Lives, In Partial Disgrace may
be the last great work to issue from the generation that changed
American letters in the '60s and '70s.