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Reviewed on July 19, 2013 | Nonfiction
At the age of 14, Hungarian Kertész was arrested in Budapest and sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The trauma of this harrowing experience is conveyed in Kertész's fiction (Fatelessness; Fiasco; Kaddish for an Unborn Child) in an intentionally prosaic style lacking in sentimentality, self-pity and protracted anguish. This dispassionate approach and his rejection not only of the term "Holocaust" to signify the annihilation of Europe's Jews, but also the notion of "Holocaust li...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
