De skæbneløse
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Imre Kertesz is Hungarian with a Jewish background, born in Budapest in 1929. In 2002, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for "an authorship that asserts the fragile experience of the individual in the face of the barbaric arbitrariness of history". As a 15-year-old in 1944, Kertesz was deported first to Auschwitz, later to Buchenwald, from where he was liberated in 1945. He then survived under extremely difficult conditions in Stalinist Hungary as a writer, journalist and translator of German-language like-minded people such as Nietzsche, Musil, Hofmannsthal , Schnitzler, Freud, Wittgenstein and Canetti. Kertész's fame has come late and only after the novel De saebnelose, published in Hungarian in 1975, was translated into a large number of languages in the 1990s. The narrator in De saebnelose is a 15-year-old Jewish boy who is deported from Budapest to Auschwitz and later to Buchenwald. With the trusting openness of a boy, he tells minutely and matter-of-factly about the totalitarian world of camp life, where the prisoners obediently and eagerly seek to comply with the rules and regulations of those in power, but also about the trivial episodes of everyday life that can evoke moments of joy and hope.
