Detective Story - Rilegato

Kertesz, Imre

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ISBN 10: 0307266443 ISBN 13: 9780307266446

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2008

Riassunto

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.

Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, and what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying on young Enrique’s aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive and then targeted his father. Once this plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime’s chosen end—the destruction of an entire liberal class.

Inside Martens’s mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time.

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Recensione:

“Appealingly meditative. . . . A compelling story, with a clever twist. . . . Kertész writes with characteristic lucidity, grace, and grim-gay humor.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power and its servants.”
—Times Literary Supplement (London)

“A timeless, placeless parable. . . . A chilling procedural of moral degradation.”
—New York Magazine

"Hopefulness in the face of tragedy makes Kertesz a joy to read, even when he describes our darkest horrors."
—The Believer

"Kertesz spins a deeply self-conscious web of psychological drama."
—The New York Sun
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Imre Kertész, who was born in 1929 and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a youth, worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fatelessness, his first novel, in 1975. He is the author of Looking for a Clue, The British Flag, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Liquidation, and Gallery-Diary 1961–1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307266443
• ISBN 13: 9780307266446
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 112