Kadersizlik

Imre Kertesz, one of the most important names of contemporary Hungarian literature, published Destiny for the first time in Turkish, which the Hungarian Ministry of State refused to print, and when it was later translated into German and published, it received great attention from readers and critics. He was met with interest. Fate begins when a sixteen-year-old Hungarian boy of Jewish origin sends his father off to a labor camp. After a while, on his way to where he worked, he and his friends were caught by the police and put on a train to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Starting from that moment, everything the young person sees, hears, tastes and touches is expressed in all its details and liveliness. The young man describes everything he witnessed with subtle humour, without making any comments, evaluations, exaggerations or pessimism. 'Even in the chimneys there, there was something resembling happiness when the smoke stopped. Maybe this actual experience will remain forgotten for me, but what everyone wants to know is only the bad, only the 'horror'. Yes, if they ask again, I must tell them about this, this happiness in the concentration camp. If they ask. Even if I haven't forgotten it myself. 'This striking novel by Imre Kertesz, who also stayed in a concentration camp, has autobiographical features.



Number of Pages: 224

Print Year: 1999


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Publishing

< strong>First Printing Year: 1999

Number of Pages: 224

Language: Turkish