Fatelessness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400078639)

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You are no Jew." In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.

Author: Imre Kert駸z
ISBN-10: 1400078636
ISBN-13: 9781400078639
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 172
Library Journal 01/01/2005