| Fatelessness Contributor(s): Kertész, Imre (Author), Wilkinson, Tim (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1400078636 ISBN-13: 9781400078639 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004057217 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.32" W x 7.96" (0.44 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |