Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper presented here speaks specifically to this relationship b[...]

Dealing with the Holocaust, this title takes readers on a journey through the author's life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.[...]

The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told[...]

Unkarilaisen nobelistin neliosaisen pääteoksen päätös."Lopetus on puhdasta metafysiikkaa ja eksistentialismia. Se pohtii pahan ja hyvän olemusta, vapauden illuusiota, minuuden, kielen ja kohtalon kadottamista." - Savon Sanomat[...]