Fateless (sorstalanság)
(Imre Kertesz)
Dear Fellow Reader, let me recommend you a book that deserved to help its author receive the Nobel prize in literature. Maybe you already know that I mean 'Fateless' by Imre Kertész. This is a book that is quite well known by now, although it gathered dust in a drawer for quite while from 1957 on. If you have heard of it, that is so, because it isa unique novel (the mediaand the movie version must havecontributedtoo). Do you wonder what makes it one of a kind? While it is about the Second World War, it is not a simple novel on concentration camps. While there are parallels between the protagonist, Gyuri Köves, it is not autobiographical either. Gyuri Köves is a Jewish teenager inBudapest. He realizes he is being deported. He has heared of what is going on, heknows he isdealt with in a different manner bacause he is a Jew, so he is not surprised. He is a silent witness to the terror and suffering that surrounds him. He changes in the concentration camps, but hisaffirmative attitude remains the same. He behaves, in turn as a curious child, a hero, a beast, but is ready to accepteverything as in order, as natural. He does not break and does not become cruel himself.He remains human all the way to the last second in the camp. The book was written in an amazing language. It is easy to Read but has heavy things to say.Dear Fellow Reader, if you feel like knowing more about the Second World Ware, do read this gem by Imre Kertész. You will get a glance at this distorted, inhuman world through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old.
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