![]() ![]() ![]() The book was at first hardly noticed by Hungarian critics and became a success only many years later once it had been translated into German and then, in 2005, made into a film by the Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai. Kertész’s first and most influential novel, Sorstalanság ( Fatelessness, 1975), is the story of a 14-year-old boy, Gyuri Köves, who survives deportation to Auschwitz and captivity in Buchenwald, and, on his return to Hungary, finds it impossible to relate his experiences to his surviving family. ![]() He later modified his statement by saying: “The main question is: can we go on living after Auschwitz?” This was the problem with which the Nobel prize-winning Hungarian Jewish writer Imre Kertész, a survivor of the Holocaust, grappled throughout his life and literary work, until his death at the age of 86. “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote the German critic Theodor Adorno soon after the second world war. ![]()
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