banned language - Imre Kertesz

Title: Banished Language - Imre Kertesz

Author: Imre Kertesz

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789023416074

Condition: Good

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Description:
After the fall of the Wall, when Imre Kertész's prose finally found a well-deserved way to readers, Kertész also began to write about the Holocaust in the form of speeches and essays. `The Imperishability of the Camps` and `The Holocaust as Culture` are his first theoretical treatises on the theme that dominates his entire oeuvre. The mercilessly sharp and analytical eye that we know from his novels also characterizes these reflective texts. For Imre Kertész, Auschwitz is not an isolated phenomenon that would stand outside European history like a foreign body and can be dismissed with the title `hell`. It is the ultimate embodiment of human degradation in our modern society. The existential question is whether this European trauma takes the form of culture or neurosis; whether it makes a constructive or destructive contribution to European society.
This volume contains the complete essays and speeches of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész. In clear terms, Kertész fathoms the ethical and cultural significance of the Holocaust and places it in a broad social context. His astute reflections are on the totalitarian character of the twentieth century, on exile and survival, the upheaval after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the new Europe.
`Kertész is an empathetic essayist who passionately explores his subjects. The tone and procedure are similar to those of his other work. But even about Auschwitz he writes more loosely and openly. Michaël Zeeman in de Volkskrant
`Whoever reads Imre Kertész cannot forget. De Groene Amsterdammer