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A review by fekete_macska
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
4.0
At first I didn't really understand why this novel was so highly regarded, as it seemed yet another testimony of the life in the camps. The style was also putting me off (I thought that the translation followed the Hungarian syntax too much sometimes, but then maybe if I could properly read Hungarian I would have had the same problem).
Everything came together in the last chapter, when the narrator reminisces about his recent experience in the camp and decides to tell only the good memories he had from the camps. I found that to be deeply moving and above all an interesting take on trauma.
Everything came together in the last chapter, when the narrator reminisces about his recent experience in the camp and decides to tell only the good memories he had from the camps. I found that to be deeply moving and above all an interesting take on trauma.