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Fatelessness (The Holocaust)

Imre Kertész

Paperback | Pages: 262 pages

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Title	:	Fatelessness (The Holocaust)
Author	:	Imre Kertész
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 262 pages
Published	:	December 7th 2004 by Vintage International (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. Cultural. Hungary. European Literature. Hungarian Literature

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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.

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Original Title:	Sorstalanság
ISBN:	1400078636 (ISBN13: 9781400078639)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Holocaust
Characters:	Köves György
Setting:	Budapest,1944(Hungary) Auschwitz-Birkenau,1944(Poland) Buchenwald,1944(Germany) …more Wille,1944(Germany) …less
Literary Awards:	Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2006), PEN Translation Prize for Tim Wilkinson (2005), Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2006), Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1997)

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This novel is written in such a dispassionate tone that when the narrator does slip out of the analytical confines of his head and allows himself to FEEL, it is all the more startling and moving. It's just such a moment that provides, for me, the most vivid and horrifying moment of the book, when the narrator in his convalescence is sent back to Buchenwald for a second stay there and sniffs a familiar smell: "...from far off I recognized, there could be no doubting it, a whiff of turnip soup in

I read Fatelessness for the first time not long after Kertész won the Nobel Prize, and without knowing much about Hungarian history or Hungarian writers. I will admit, I was mystified by its tone, which veered back and forth between a disarming intimacy (where the reader is invited to share the naive perspective of the 15-year-old narrator, Gyorgy, on his experiences in the lagers) and the ironic detachment of the narrator's adult self. It was more layered than a work of witness testimony, such

A Holocaust book that doesn't seem especially frequently read, especially given that Nobel Kertesz won. The protagonist is a young teenager who's frankly kind of a schlub, and never really understands the fact "oh, I'm being sent to my fate, along with everyone I know." Even when he gets back home after the liberation, he's all "hey, still smells like home, but why are these gentiles living here?" I've heard comparisons to Borowski, but this is far better, simply because of the pure,

I have to confess, when I first started reading this masterpiece (because it is in fact a masterpiece) I was not impressed. The absolute lack of any emotional attachment a reader usually experiences during the dive into the horrors of Holocaust was masterfully eliminated by Kertész and - as I soon discovered - with good purpose. I read Fatelessness/Sortalanság (oh, how inappropriate it sounds in English!) in its original language, Hungarian. Unfortunately, most of the readers here are probably

Nobel prize-winner Imre Kertész survived stays in both the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. While he was there, I have no doubt that he suffered a great dealboth physically and psychologicallyso I was (understandably, I think) hesitant to dislike his semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Fatelessness. It seems (at the very least) very inconsiderate of me to criticize his book for failing to 'entertain' me. Entertainment is a strange, nebulous word. Are we entertained (in whatever

Certain experiences are simply indescribable--or, at least one's reaction to them. The accepted wisdom of how a person might view traumatic experiences does not always tally with reality. That the narrator of Fateless (or Fatelessness, depending on the edition), George Koves, is able to describe moments that seemed beautiful during his time at Buchenwald Concentration Camp is not what others might expect to hear, and, in fact, actually angers people who are convinced that they understand his

Short sentences, a certain distance from the narrator compared to theaction. An influence of Camus asserted. But this style was essential to describe the indescribable. I remember Budapest. My hotel was close to the old synagogue. It is not visited but the engraved stones are visible behind the grids. In this beautiful city I felt an infinite unhappiness.To be 15 years old with Auschwitz, to escape death, then to undergo vexations of the Communists because he wanted to perpetuate the memory of