Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz, (Translator) Tim Wilkinson
Language: English
Published by Vintage Books, 2004
- Softcover
- New
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The genius of this unblinking, unflinching novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable aliveness of the Holocaust. This work by the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient,may, in the annals of this genre, be surpassed only by Primo Levi's 'Survival in Auschwitz.' Fourteen-year-old Georg Koves, plucked from his home in Budapest and deposited on a train to Auschwitz, unable to identify with other Jews and in turn rejected by them, Georg is the essential outsider. Yet his estrangement makes him a preternaturally accurate observer. 'Sardonic, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment.' 256p.
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- Title
- Fatelessness
- Author
- Imre Kertesz, (Translator) Tim Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400078636
- ISBN 13
- 9781400078639
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The genius of Imre Kertesz’s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg’s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses–or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.
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The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness" is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.
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