Fatelessness

Fatelessness

Author: Imre Kertész

Publisher: Harvill Press

ISBN: UOM:39015062863595

Category: Budapest (Hungary)

Page: 256

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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance and boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his father he finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'. Within a fortnight Gyuri is unexpectedly pulled off the bus and detained without explanation This is the start of his journey to and subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. On arrival he finds he is unable to identify with other Jews, and in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer. FATELESSNESS' power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust, the strangeness is compounded by Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of everything he witnesses.
Fatelessness
Language: un
Pages: 256

Fatelessness

Authors: Imre Kertész
Categories: Budapest (Hungary)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Harvill Press

Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance and boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his
Fatelessness
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Fatelessness

Authors: Imre Kertesz
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-01 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners,
Fateless
Language: un
Pages: 191

Fateless

Authors: Imre Kertesz
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Relates the daily life of prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old boy who is deported to the camp with his father.
Dossier K
Language: un
Pages: 224

Dossier K

Authors: Imre Kertesz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-07 - Publisher: Melville House

The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize–winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—with himself Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature—an attempt to set the record straight. The
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Authors: Imre Kertesz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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