Kertész, Imre

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Described At	Kertesz Imre	yivo
Has Abstract	(1929– ), writer and translator. The first Hungarian writer to receive the Nobel Prize, Imre Kertész was conspicuous for winning it as a Jew who wrote about the Holocaust. Kertész identifies himself as a Jew without adherence to Judaism, Jewish tradition, or Jewish nationhood. He wrote his major work, Sorstalanság (Fateless; 1975), about the experience of Auschwitz. Although the novel is written in Hungarian, Kertész in other ways saw his residence in Hungary as a kind of internal exile. He explains in his novel Kudarc (Fiasco; 1988) that he returned to Hungary from Buchenwald by chance, and that the only reason he did not leave in 1956 was because he could write Sorstalanság only in Hungarian; afterward, however, he had no reason to remain. For 35 years, he lived with his first wife in a 28-square-meter apartment, in which he shut himself off from the country’s social, intellectual, and political affairs. This self-exiled existence lies behind the dramatic strength and spiritual independence that can be felt in his work.	yivo
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Title	Kertész, Imre	yivo
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Core Alt Label	Imre Kertesz Imre Kertész	yivo
Core Pref Label	Kertész, Imre	yivo
Core Related	Budapest yivo Holocaust yivo Hungary yivo Roth Joseph yivo	yivo
is Core Related of	Amos Imre yivo Budapest yivo Markish Shimon yivo Yiddish Prose yivo Vas Istvan yivo	yivo

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