Name: Fateless (Vintage Classics)
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Author: Imre Kertész
ISBN: 9781784872151

Type

Physical Book

Author

Imre Kertész

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784872151

Edition No.

Fateless (Vintage Classics)

Imre Kertész (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Fateless (Vintage Classics) "

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' ObserverGyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business - his final act before being sent to a labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz.On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of the barbarity - and beauty - he witnesses.

Imre Kertész

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Imre Kertész (Budapest, 1929–2016) was a Hungarian writer of Jewish origin, known for his deep literary exploration of the Holocaust and totalitarian regimes. At the age of 14, he was deported to Auschwitz and later to Buchenwald, experiences that marked his work. After the war, he worked as a journalist and translator before fully dedicating himself to writing. In 2002, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for a work that preserves the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.

Among his most notable works are Fatelessness (1975), Fiasco (1988), Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990), and Liquidation (2003). These novels address themes such as identity, memory, and individual freedom in oppressive contexts. His literary style is characterized by precise and reflective prose, which invites deep introspection on the human condition.

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