Detective Story - Brossura

Kertész, Imre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0307279650 ISBN 13: 9780307279651

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2009

Riassunto

In a chilling study of the nature of evil, Antonio Martens, a one-time torturer for the secret police of a recently deposed dictatorship who has been imprisoned for his crimes, describes his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, whose opposition to the former regime made them targets. Reprint.

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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

L'autore:

Imre Kertesz, 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: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307279650
• ISBN 13: 9780307279651
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128