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Detective Story by Imre Kertesz (tr from Hungarian Tim Wilkinson)
Category: Fiction
Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, he requests and is given writing materials in his cell, and what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent fathe ...Show more
Detective Story by Imre Kertesz
Category: Fiction
"A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power". (Times Literary Supplement). Antonio Martens was an interrogator for the secret police of a recently fallen dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Federigo Salinas and his ...Show more
Dossier K by Imre Kertesz
Category: Judaica
Kertesz delves into his life not only during the Second World War, when he was deported from Budapest at 14 with other Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp, but also his experiences under so-called 'Goulash Communism'. Dossier K is the first and only memoir from Imre Kertesz, an author whose f ...Show more
Fateless by Imre Kertesz
Category: Fiction
"While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer". (Observer). Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the fir ...Show more
Fateless by Imre Kertesz (tr from Hungarian Tim Wilkinson)
Category: Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Gyuri
Fateless by Kertesz Imre
Category: Fiction
On his return to his native Budapest from a German concentration camp, 14-year-old George Koves senses the difference of people on the street. Left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone, he comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarian or Jewish heritage was at the heart of his fate.
Fiasco by Imre Kertesz
Category: Judaica
Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness (Vintage, 2004) and Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Vintage, 2004), describing the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Life under the regime is dep ...Show more
Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
Category: Fiction
"A fine and powerful piece of work...Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic". (Irish Times). "No!" is the first word of Imre Kertesz's haunting novel, Kaddish for an Unborn Child. It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has ...Show more
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz (tr from Hungarian Tim Wilkinson)
Category: Fiction
Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B., a writer of great repute - whose birth and survival in Auschwitz defied all probability - has taken his own life. His friend Kingbitter discovers among his papers a play entitled "Liquidation", in which he reads an eerie foretelling of the personal ...Show more
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
Category: Fiction
"Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide...A compelling if deeply unsettling work". (Independent). Kingbitter, an editor at a publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend ...Show more