by Imre Kertész · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742715428
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«Etre sans destin» is the novel by Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, published by Actes Sud in paperback (366 pages, in French).
Imre Kertész's work follows a teenager arrested in Budapest and deported to a concentration camp, until his liberation. Far from the usual testimonial tone, it shows survival as a form of acceptance of the unacceptable and asks what remains of humanity when individual destiny is annulled.
The original work, Sorstalanság, was published in 1975; this French edition is translated by Natalia and Charles Zaremba.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century Hungarian narrative, with an interest in Holocaust 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.
