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I've read many books over the years on the holocaust, and I had been wanting to read Fatelessness for a long time. Hungarian Kertesz won a Nobel Prize for his writing. Some say this fictional account is semi-autobiographical, but Kertesz denied it.
What I found fascinating about this work is the almost dreamlike quality to it. The main character, Koves was picked up with many other boys his age (14) and sent to a train station without being informed about what was happening to them. He is sent to ...more
What I found fascinating about this work is the almost dreamlike quality to it. The main character, Koves was picked up with many other boys his age (14) and sent to a train station without being informed about what was happening to them. He is sent to ...more
In this novel a teenage boy who is “not really Jewish� is sent to concentration camps one year before liberation, and barely survives.
Told in a first-person, rambling, almost stream-of-consciousness style very different from the more usual journalistic style. It was an effort to follow his thoughts at times, but certainly worth reading.
Told in a first-person, rambling, almost stream-of-consciousness style very different from the more usual journalistic style. It was an effort to follow his thoughts at times, but certainly worth reading.
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