The Union Jack - Brossura

Kertész, Imre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1933633875 ISBN 13: 9781933633879

Casa editrice: Melville House, 2010

Riassunto

An unnamed narrator recounts his sighting of the Union Jack--the British flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army, in a novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Pathseeker. Original.

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Praise for Imre Kertész

"...An enormous effort to understand and find a language for what the Holocaust says about the human condition."
—George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement

"...Searching and visionary beyond the usual parameters."
—Sven Birkets, Bookforum

"In explaining something of the weight and importance of Kertesz's subjects and creative achievements, it is hard to convey simultaneously the deftness and vivacity of his writing....There is something quintessentially youthful and life-affirming in this writer's sensibility..."
—Ruth Scurr, The Nation

“Kertész's work is a profound meditation on the great and enduring themes of love, death and the problem of evil, although for Kertész, it's not evil that is the problem but good.”
—John Banville, author of The Sea

L'autore

Born in Budapest in 1929, Imre Kertész was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1944, and then at Bunchenwald concentration camp. After the war and repatriation, the Soviet seizure of Hungary ended Kertesz's brief career as a journalist. He turned to translation, specializing in German language works, and later emigrated to Berlin. Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."

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• Editore: Melville House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1933633875
• ISBN 13: 9781933633879
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80