Fateless novel

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Title page of the novel of a fateless , 10th edition in Hungary

The novel of a fateless ( Hungarian .: Sorstalanság, "fatelessness" ) was written by the Hungarian writer and Nobel laureate Imre Kertész and published for the first time in 1975.

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From the perspective of a boy from Budapest , the 15-year-old György, he describes life in Hungary during World War II , the deportation to the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps and everyday camp life there. Kertész himself was a prisoner there and processes his personal experiences in the plant.

The novel was filmed in 2005 by Lajos Koltai under the German title Fateless - Roman eines Schicksallosen .

literature

  • Jan Philipp Reemtsma : Survival as forced consent. Thoughts while reading Imre Kertész's “Novel of a Fateless Man” . Lecture from 1999 in: Jan Philipp Reemtsma: Why Hagen killed Jung-Ortlieb. Untimely about war and death . Beck, Munich 2003 (= Beck'sche Reihe 1508), pp. 220-249.
  • Magnus Klaue: Stolen testimony. Discourses on perpetrators and victims in Holocaust literature - with a special focus on Kertész's “Novel of a Fateless Man” and Hilsenrath's Der Nazi & der Friseur . In: Kittkritik (Ed.): Deutschlandwunder. Desire and delusion in post-Nazi culture . Ventil, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-931555-71-9 .
  • Write your own mythology. Diary entries for the "Novel of a Fateless" 1959–1962. From the archive of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, compiled and translated from Hungarian by Pál Kelemen and Ingrid Krüger, in: Sinn und Form , Issue 1 2019, pp. 5–23.

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