The Holocaust as Culture - A Conversation with Imre Kertesz

Informationen zum Autor Imre Kertesz! born of Jewish descent in Budapest! was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and from there to Buchenwald! from where he was liberated in 1945. His books include Fatelessness! Kaddish for an Unborn Child! and The Union Jack. Thomas Cooper has translated works of poetry and prose by many contemporary Hungarian authors. Klappentext Reflecting on Imre Kertesz's experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary! this title likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism. Zusammenfassung Reflecting on Imre Kertesz's experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary! this title likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism.

Product details

• Authors: Imre Kertesz, Imre/ Cooper Kertesz, Imre Kertész
• Assisted by: Thomas Cooper (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9780857420220
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-022-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Seagull Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies