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

Fatelessness

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 doesnâ€™t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, â€œYou are no Jew.â€ In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszâ€™s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgâ€™s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesâ€“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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781400078639
Color Blue
ReleaseDate 2004-12-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400078639

Fatelessness