Search results for Imre Kertesz
The Holocaust as Culture: A Conversation with Imre Kertesz
$19.95 – Hardback / Seagull Books London Ltd
Reflecting on Imre Kertesz's experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary, this title likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism. Buy or find out more→
Dossier K
$24.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
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'.... Buy or find out more→
Union Jack
$18.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was." A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple... Buy or find out more→
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
$10.00 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It... Buy or find out more→
Fiasco
$26.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
Translated into English at last, "Fiasco "joins its companion volumes "Fatelessness "and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child "in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken... Buy or find out more→
Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Amery and Imre Kertesz
$120.00 – Hardback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
This title examines issues of transitional justice and reconciliation from a critical, political theory perspective rarely applied in this area of study. This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective... Buy or find out more→
Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Amery and Imre Kertesz
$40.00 – Paperback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
An examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation and the individual subjective experience of trauma. It looks at how texts from Jean Amery and Imre Kertesz speak to the... Buy or find out more→
Liquidation
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Imre Kert?sz's savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe. Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B.... Buy or find out more→
The Pathseeker
$22.95 – Paperback / Melville House Publishing
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre... Buy or find out more→
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The first word of this haunting novel is 'no'. It is how the narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks if he has a child and it is how he answered his, now ex-, wife when she told him she... Buy or find out more→
Detective Story
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, he is given writing materials, and he has to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and... Buy or find out more→
Detective Story
$20.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books USA
Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, he is given writing materials, and he has to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and... Buy or find out more→
Liquidacion
$24.95 – Paperback / Alfaguara
** NOBEL LAUREATE 2002** A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) that narrates the unimaginable life of Bi, a writer born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed... Buy or find out more→