Dossier K.
by Imre Kertész
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The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize--winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview--with himselfDossier K. is Imre Kertész's response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature--an attempt to set the record straight.
The result is an extraordinary self-portrait, in which Kertész interrogates himself about the course of his own remarkable life, moving from memories of his childhood in show more Budapest, his imprisonment in Nazi death camps and the forged record that saved his life, his experiences as a censored journalist in postwar Hungary under successive totalitarian communist regimes, and his eventual turn to fiction, culminating in the novels--such as Fatelessness, Fiasco, and Kaddish for an Unborn Child--that have established him as one of the most powerful, unsentimental, and imaginatively daring writers of our time.
In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kertész continues to delve into the questions that have long occupied him: the legacy of the Holocaust, the distinctions drawn between fiction and reality, and what he calls "that wonderful burden of being responsible for oneself."
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Review published in Berfrois, May 2013: http://www.berfrois.com/2013/05/k-thomas-kahn-where-auschwitz-starts-logic-stops...
C'est là l'occasion de découvrir l'auteur, ses inspirations, sa perception du monde et son cheminement. J'ai particulièrement aimé son discours autour du livre : les œuvres qui l'ont inspiré, celles qui l'ont formé, celles, même, qu'il a rejetées. Il y avait aussi un regard intéressant sur ce que signifie le livre, l'écriture et ses propres romans, la différence entre fiction et réalité et le rôle du livre dans la libération de l'esprit, la catharsis, le façonnage du monde. Bémol : Kertész évitait beaucoup de questions ce qui donnait l'impression de coquetterie (même si c'était sans doute la fatigue et la souffrance) mais la teneur de ses propos était souvent riche et instructive.
Dec 26, 2009French
"Dossier K." è un romanzo autobiografico sotto forma di dialogo che stacca il suo ritmo battendo su domande capitali, che pone il lettore nella condizione di muovere intelligenza ed emozioni. Kertész mette in discussione se stesso, e insieme i più grandi eventi della storia del Novecento. (fonte: Google Books)
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Imre Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 9, 1929. He was only 14 years old when he was deported with 7,000 other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1944. He survived that camp and later was transferred to the Buchenwald camp from where he was liberated in 1945. After returning to his native Budapest, he show more worked as a journalist and translator. He translated the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Elias Canetti into Hungarian. He wrote several novels that drew largely from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. His novels included Fateless, Fiasco, Kaddish for a Child Not Born, Someone Else, The K File, Europe's Depressing Heritage, and Liquidation. He also wrote the screenplay for the film version of Fateless in 2005. While his work was ignored by both the communist authorities and the public in Hungary where awareness of the Holocaust remained negligible, his work was recognized in other parts of the world. He received awards including the Brandenburg Literature Prize in 1995, The Book Prize for European Understanding, the Darmstadt Academy Prize in 1997, the World Literature Prize in 2000, and the Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction in 2002. He died after a long illness on March 31, 2016 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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