Name: Liquidation (Vintage Classics)
SKU: 49286147
Price: 13.78 EUR
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Author: Imre Kertész
ISBN: 9781784872168

Type

Physical Book

Author

Imre Kertész

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784872168

Edition No.

Liquidation (Vintage Classics)

Imre Kertész (Author) · Vintage Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "Liquidation (Vintage Classics) "

A masterly new novel from the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature: the story of a Hungarian writer whose death forces his circle of friends to confront their own terrible moment in history.Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B.–a writer of high literary reputation whose birth and survival in Auschwitz defied all probability–has taken his own life. Among his papers, his friend Kingbitter discovers a play titled Liquidation in which he reads an eerie foretelling of the personal and political crises that he and B.’s other friends now face: having survived the Holocaust and the years of Communist rule, having experienced the surge of hopefulness that rose from the rubble of the Wall, they are left with little but a sense of chaos and an utter loss of identity.Kingbitter, desperate to understand his friend’s suicide, begins a furious search for the novel he believes might be among B.’s papers and might provide the key. But the search takes him in unexpected directions: deep into his own memories and into those of B.’s ex-wife, Judith, the hidden corners of their lives revealed–to themselves and to us–at the same time as the mystery of B.’s life is slowly unraveled.An intricately layered story of history and humanity–powerful, disturbing, lyrical, achingly suspenseful, brilliantly told. --Este texto se refiere a la edición Hardcover.

Imre Kertész

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Imre Kertész (Budapest, 1929–2016) was a Hungarian writer of Jewish origin, known for his deep literary exploration of the Holocaust and totalitarian regimes. At the age of 14, he was deported to Auschwitz and later to Buchenwald, experiences that marked his work. After the war, he worked as a journalist and translator before fully dedicating himself to writing. In 2002, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for a work that preserves the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.

Among his most notable works are Fatelessness (1975), Fiasco (1988), Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990), and Liquidation (2003). These novels address themes such as identity, memory, and individual freedom in oppressive contexts. His literary style is characterized by precise and reflective prose, which invites deep introspection on the human condition.

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