Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész (, born with Budapest the November 9th 1929) is a Hungarian writer.

Biography

Born in a modest Jewish family (her father is wood merchant and its small mother employed), it is off-set with Auschwitz in 1944, at the 15 years age, then transferred to Buchenwald. This painful experiment marks it deeply and will nourish all its work.

Returned to Hungary, in 1945, it is only found, all the members of its family having disappeared. In 1948, it starts to work as journalist. But its newspaper becomes in 1951 the official body of the Communist party, and Kertész is laid off. He then works some time in a factory, then at the press service of the ministry for Industry.

Congédié in 1953, it is devoted consequently to the writing and the translation. Starting from the end of the year 1950 and throughout the years 1960, it writes musical comedies to earn its living. It translates many authors of German language, such as Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Freud, Roth, Wittgenstein and Canetti, which had an influence on its literary creation. In the years 1960, it starts to write Être without destiny , account of the life of a young Hungarian deportee, of largely autobiographical inspiration. This novel could appear only in 1975 and received initially only one rather modest reception. It is only after its republication, in 1985, which he knew success.

Held with the variation by the Communist regime, Kertész started to be recognized like a great writer only at the end of the Eighties. It obtained in 2002 the Nobel Prize of literature, “for a work which draws up the fragile experiment of the individual against the arbitrary barbarian of the history”.

Works

  • To be without destiny (Sorstalanság) , 1975 - Actes Sud, 1998 (see critical)
  • the researcher of traces (nyomkereső has) , 1977 - Actes Sud, 2003
  • Detective novel (Detektívtörténet) , 1977 - Actes Sud, 2006
  • the refusal (kudarc has) , 1988 - Actes Sud, 2001
  • Kaddish for the child who will not be born (Kaddis has meg nem született gyermekért) , 1990 - Actes Sud, 1995
  • the English flag (Az angol lobogó) , 1991 - Actes Sud 2005
  • Gályanapló , 1992
  • Jegyzőkönyv , 1993
  • has holocaust mint will kultúra , 1993
  • Another. Chronicle of a metamorphosis (Valaki más: has változás krónikája) , 1997 - Actes Sud, 1999
  • has gondolatnyi csend, amíg has kivégzőosztag újratölt , 1998
  • has száműzött nyelv , 2001
  • Liquidation (Felszámolás) , 2003 - Actes Sud, 2004
  • HAS K. dosszié , 2006

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