by Imre Kertész · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264033819
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«Être sans destin» is Imre Kertész's Holocaust novel, published by 10/18 in paperback (368 pages, in French).
A young Hungarian Jewish boy is taken from his home in Budapest and sent to a concentration camp. Through his naive and bewildered gaze, the novel portrays life in the camp, survival, and the loss of identity, without sentimentality or explicit moral judgments.
Work originally published in Hungarian in 1975. Translated from the Hungarian by Natalia Zaremba-Huzsvai and Charles Zaremba. Imre Kertész received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction and Holocaust testimonies, as well as those who value twentieth-century Central European literature.
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
