Liquidation: Imre Kertesz - Brossura

Kertesz, Imre

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ISBN 10: 1784872164 ISBN 13: 9781784872168

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2017

Riassunto

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide... A compelling if deeply unsettling work’ Independent

Kingbitter, an editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.'s ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play, Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B.'s great novel: the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz.

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Recensione:

"A beautiful glimpse of the wide-open spaces of storytelling" (Daily Telegraph)

"A masterly, subtle and constantly surprising novel, which, in this fine translation, reads as if it were written in this century, not the last" (Sunday Times)

L'autore:

Imre Kertész was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. Imre Kertész died in Budapest in March 2016

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784872164
• ISBN 13: 9781784872168
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144