Imre Kertész
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Imre Kertész
Nobel Laureate for Literature
Mrs. Roseboro
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Born in Budapest – 1929
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Early education
But then…..
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Deported to Auschwitz - 1944
World War II begins…
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Sent to Buchenwald -1944
Prisoner # 64, 921
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Remember Night by Elie Wiesel?
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World War II ends 1945
Only 16 years old
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Budapest –1950’s
Worked as Journalist
Translator of German books to Hungarian
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Hungary becomes COMMUNIST
Kertész leaves his job as journalist
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Hungary appalls Kertész
"There is no awareness of the Holocaust in Hungary. People have not faced up to the Holocaust."
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Published Trilogy
Fiasco, published in 1988 . (response to the people denying the Holocaust.)
Fateless, published
in 1975 (into English
in 1992)
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published in 1990, translated into
English in 1997.
Other prose works never translated to English: The
Pathfinder, the English Flag, Galley Diary, and I-Another:
Chronicle of a Metamorphosis.
Kaddish For A Child Not Born
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•The Holocaust As Culture,
•Moments of Silence While the
Firing Squad Reloads
•The Exiled Language
Numerous essays collected in
(none translated into English)
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Wins Nobel Prize in 2002 -
"for writing that
upholds the fragile
experience of the
individual against
the barbaric
arbitrariness of
history."
receives $1 million cash!!
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Book I read…
a middle-aged Holocaust survivor looking back on his life
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Kaddish – prayer for the dead
Kertész’ Kaddish is said for the child he refuses to beget…
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What the Critics Say
disturbing, yet lyrical novel
recalls the pivotal events of his unhappy
past in a seamless burst of introspection
…painful in its intensity and despair
occasionally rambling but always
compelling Review by Sister M. Anna Falbo
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Robert Murray Davis, World Literature Today
“Part meditation,
part memoir, part
highly abstract
and a chronic
narrative in the
first person.”
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Alan Riding, The New York Times
“…his amiable nature seems like a generous revenge for the cruelties and miseries he has known.”
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My evaluation
Clarity
Escape
*Reflection of Real Life
*Artistry in Details
Internal Consistency
*Tone
Emotional Impact
Personal Beliefs
*Significant Insights
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3 5
Why?
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Reflection of Real Life - 5
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Experiences influence writing
“History", this dreadful Moloch, because it was mine and mine alone…”
From Nobel Lecture
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Artistry in Details - 5
Images one can Feel and SEE!!!
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“I remember,
the city bathed in overripe smells,
along the pathway
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drunk, irregular,
small
windowed,
unwashed
houses
staggered
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the setting sun
like a sticky yellow flow of pus;
down their walls
dripping
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their gates like darkly gaping wounds,
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and I dizzily
grabbed
a door handle
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or who knows what
as I was suddenly touched…
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-- oh, not by the mystery of death,
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no contrarily,
by the mystery of survival.”
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Tone - 5
from Nobel Lecture
“In my writing the Holocaust could never be in
present in the past tense.”
“Being a Jew to me is once again, first and
foremost, a moral challenge.”
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From Nobel Lecture
Significant Insight (Psych) - 5
“Thus, in thinking about Auschwitz, I reflect,
paradoxically, not on the past but on the future.”
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Imre Kertész
Nobel Laureate for Literature - 2002
Pride and Joy Hungary’s