Fateless
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| Author | Imre Kertész |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sorstalanság |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Genre(s) | Autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Released | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 963-14-2388-3 |
Fateless or Fatelessness (Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit. "Fatelessness") is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975.
The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 15-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. The book is the first part of a trilogy, which continues in A Kudarc ("Fiasco" ISBN 0-8101-1161-6) and Kaddis A Meg Nem Született Gyermekért ("Kaddish for an Unborn Child" ISBN 1-4000-7862-8).
Kertész won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
The book was first published in English in 1992 as Fateless (ISBN 0-8101-1049-0 and ISBN 0-8101-1024-5), while in 2004 a second translation appeared (ISBN 1-4000-7863-6) under the title Fatelessness.
[edit] Plot summary
The novel is about a young boy, György "Gyuri" Köves (based on the author), who is deported to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
| The Work of Imre Kertész | |
|---|---|
| Novels: Sorstalanság | A nyomkereső | Detektívtörténet | A kudarc | Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért | Az angol lobogó | Gályanapló | A holocaust mint kultúra : három előadás | Valaki más : a változás krónikája | A gondolatnyi csend, amíg a kivégzőosztag újratölt | A száműzött nyelv | Felszámolás | |
| Short stories: Jegyzőkönyv | |
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