by Agota Kristof · EDICIONES ALPHA DECAY S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492837847
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In 'The Illiterate,' Agota Kristof presents eleven short chapters that capture key moments in her life. This autobiographical work condenses an impassioned existence into essential fragments. Critics have praised these pages as a gift to the intellect, a life journey that begins with a young woman devouring books in Hungarian and culminates with a world-renowned writer in French. From a happy childhood to poverty after the war, through loneliness in boarding school, the death of Stalin, the mother tongue and enemy languages such as German and Russian, the flight from Austria and the arrival in Lausanne with her baby, Kristof offers us an implacable, fair, and precise look. This book, characterized by brief and minimalist sentences, concentrates great reflections and powerful thoughts.
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
