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, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holoc...
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, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
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.
Offers a different perspective on how the victims/survivors feel about the Holocaust since it's the story of a Hungarian Jew. Will take a closer look in a few days.
![[匈牙利] 凯尔泰斯·伊姆雷](https://img1.doubanio.com/view/personage/m/public/655d5627c7b14b1235cd301baaeb1f19.jpg)
凯尔泰斯·伊姆雷 作者
安提戈涅
译林出版社2010版
雷子
作家出版社2004版
ichbinluz
作家出版社2004版
Kirsten
上海译文出版社2003版
故垒
上海译文出版社2003版
Carol
作家出版社2004版
灰。
译林出版社2010版
墨沫
作家出版社2004版
鹿鹿小姐姐
上海译文出版社2003版
0 有用 Eibba Unz 2013-11-08 06:29:46
Offers a different perspective on how the victims/survivors feel about the Holocaust since it's the story of a Hungarian Jew. Will take a closer look in a few days.
0 有用 Salzig 2013-06-26 11:49:24
An audacious, unblinking look into human extremities.