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Fatelessness

Imre Kertész

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1975
Originally in
Originally in Hungarian
Pages
Pages 200

A Hungarian teenager is pulled off a bus into the camps and reports what he sees with a boy's flat matter-of-factness, which is exactly what makes it unbearable.

Even there, next to the chimneys, in the intervals between the torments, there was something that resembled happiness.
Fatelessness, Imre Kertész

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