Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Stranger in Hell
By Istvan Deak
Fateless
by Imre Kertész, translated from the Hungarian by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson
Northwestern University Press, 191 pp., $19.95 (paper)
At the end of June 1944, when he was fourteen, Imre Kertész was sent to Auschwitz. How he got there and what happened to him afterward became the subject of Fateless, the remarkable novel that would bring him the Nobel Prize in Literature last year. Central to his story is the fact that, as a Budapest Jew, he should have been spared the fate that befell nearly half a million fellow Jews of the Hungarian countryside.
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