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Imre Kertész


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
November 09, 1929

Died
March 31, 2016

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Born in Budapest in 1929, during World War II Imre Kertész was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1944 and later at Buchenwald. After the war and repatriation, Kertész soon ended his brief career as a journalist and turned to translation, specializing in German language works. He 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". ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 18,457 ratings · 1,879 reviews · 72 distinct works � Similar authors
Fatelessness
4.08 avg rating — 12,766 ratings — published 1975 — 167 editions
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Kaddish for an Unborn Child
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3.80 avg rating — 1,961 ratings — published 1990 — 39 editions
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Liquidation
3.79 avg rating — 1,441 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Detective Story
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3.53 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 1977 — 31 editions
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Yo, otro. Crónica del cambio
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3.79 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1990 — 33 editions
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Fiasco
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3.55 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1988 — 38 editions
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Dossier K: A Memoir
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The Union Jack
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3.45 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1991 — 25 editions
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The Pathseeker
3.56 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions
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Diario de la galera
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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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“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the time we learn everything, we slowly come to understand it. And while you come to understand everything gradually, you don't remain idle at any moment: you are already attending to your new business; you live, you act, you move, you fulfill the new requirements of every new step of development. If, on the other hand, there were no schedule, no gradual enlightenment, if all the knowledge descended on you at once right there in one spot, then it's possible neither your brains nor your heart could bear it.”
― Imre Kertész, Fatelessness
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“...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.”
― Imre Kertesz, Fateless
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