From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.
IMRE KERT SZ was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned first in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing FATELESSNESS, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
Praise for Imre Kertész's The Pathseeker "Kertész's work is a
profound meditation on the great and enduring themes of love, death
and the problem of evil, although for Kertész, it's not evil that
is the problem but good."
--John Banville, author of The Sea
"From Imre Kertész, the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for
Literature, we have come to expect novels where [his] detectives
track themselves, seeking to apprehend their own role in 'the
logic' of authoritarianism. . . . From a recipe with these
ingredients, it is hard to imagine anything but the highest
seriousness. The Pathseeker doesn't disappoint. . . . Kafka comes
to mind."
--John Leonard, Harper's Magazine
"Original and chilling."
--The New York Review of Books
"The Pathseeker is a necessary addition to Mr. Kertész's work in
English, and should occasion thanks to both the novelist and his
translator, Tim Wilkinson, who has rendered Mr. Kertész's (famously
difficult) Hungarian into a flowing, able English--as well as to
Melville House's fascinating 'The Contemporary Art of the Novella'
series, which rubric The Pathseeker falls under. . . . And with the
introduction of The Pathseeker into English, after 30 years of
silence, we should pay grateful and careful attention."
--New York Sun
"[A] profound and puzzling novella... Kertész reminds us that some
things can never be named."
--Los Angeles Times "A wonderful opportunity to deepen our
understanding of Kertész."
--The Nation
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