The Hungarian writer and 2002 Nobel literature Imre Kertesz , died Thursday at age 86, leaving a work fueled by his experiences in Nazi death camps and denunciation against dictatorships.
Affected years by Parkinson’s disease, the only Hungarian language nobel left Berlin in 2013, where he lived since 2001, and returned to Budapest.
There, at his home in the Hungarian capital, died in the early hours of Thursday announced its editorial Magveto.
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Born November 9, 1929, he was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland), with only 15 years before being transferred to Buchenwald (Germany) in 1945.
the works of this Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps are often compared to those of the Italian Primo Levi, the Spanish Jorge Semprun or American Elie Wiesel.
“it was one of the Jewish writers Europe could not belong to a single nation because of their injuries and the universal perspective of his work on the Holocaust, “assured the AFP Gabor T. Szanto, editor of the literary magazine Hungarian Szombat, who regularly saw the writer.
His best known work, Fateless , published in the midst of indifference in 1975, was finally recognized as a work that “traces the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history, and defends individual thought against submission to political power. “according to the jury of the Nobel
Kertész replied:” I presented the facts as they were not as they appeared later in the conscience of each one. “
the” barbaric arbitrariness “that the individual faces in his work is typical of all authoritarian systems, as denounced Kertesz, a man of classic elegance .
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“in Auschwitz, I was a child. Only under the Communist dictatorship understood what he had suffered at Auschwitz, “he said upon receiving the Nobel. That communist dictatorship “never appreciated my books, because he perceived that there was something explosive in them: a call against all dictatorships, not only against the Nazi dictatorship.” Explained
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Imre Kertesz returned to Budapest after the war, and worked as a journalist until his newspaper had to adopt the communist line, and he was marginalized by the regime.
“Between 1961 and 1973, I wrote 500 times the principle of Fateless , so you find a distance, a structure, a framework where words might have life, “he said.
Although criticized the populist conservative government in 2012 Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Imre Kertesz was in turn criticized in 2014 by the opposition press for accepting a tribute thereof Orban.
Kertesz also translator of German literature, he is also the author of Sale (2004), A moment of silence in the wall (1998) or I another. Chronicle change (1997).
His latest book, The last posada about to be published in Spain by the publishing Cliff, includes diaries between 2001 and 2009 are “a visceral testimony and sometimes disturbing their experiences in that period,” the Spanish editor.
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