Imre Kertész

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November 09, 1929 in Budapest, Hungary

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Born in Budapest in 1929, Imre Kertész was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1944, and then at Bunchenwald concentration camp. After the war and repatriation, the Soviet seizure of Hungary ended Kertész's brief career as a journalist. He turned to translation, specializing in German language works, and later emigrated to Berlin. Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."

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Average rating: 3.89 · 2,208 ratings · 317 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,255 ratings — published 1975 — 48 editions	My rating:
	Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1990 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Liquidation by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Detective Story 3.57 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Pathseeker 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Fiasco by Imre Kertész, Kertess 3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Union Jack by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Yo, Otro. Crónica del Cambio 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	My rating:
	K. Dosszie by Imre Kertész, Zoltan Hafner 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings	My rating:
	Roman eines Schicksallosen 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1975	My rating:

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“You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”
― Imre Kertész, Liquidation

tags: apathy , deception , government , radicalism , tolerance , truth

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“...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.”
― Imre Kertész, Fateless

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“Kingbitter, as he did frequently nowadays, was standing at his window and looking out onto the street below. This street offered the most mundane and ordinary sights of Budapest's mundane and ordinary streets. The muck-, oil-, and dog-dirt-spattered sidewalk was lined with parked cars, and in the one-yard gaps between the cars and the leprotically peeling house walls the most mundane and ordinary passersby were attempting to go about their business, their hostile features an outward clue to their dark thoughts. Every now and then, perhaps in a hurry to overtake the single file inching along the front, one of them would step off the sidewalk, only for an entire chorus of rancorous car horns to give the lie to any groundless hope of breaking free from the line.”
― Imre Kertész, Liquidation

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