by Imre Kertész · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477273912
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«Fiasco» is the novel by Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (369 pages).
Köves, a writer in a dictatorial environment with a Stalinist tone, tries to write the only novel possible for him in a world where reality and fiction mix. The action, between delirium and absurdity, with melancholic humour and a Kafkaesque air, unfolds like Russian dolls: writing against the current.
Fiasco is the central part of the trilogy Kertész devoted to «the absence of destiny», between «Fateless» and «Kaddish for an Unborn Child». Translation by Adan Kovacsics and Marta Marfany.
Readers of literary fiction, historical fiction and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, especially those seeking novels with a reflective tone and oppressive setting.
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.
