Description
A survivor’s attempt to reclaim a livable life after the Holocaust becomes inseparable from the question of whether language—and narrative itself—can ever do justice to what was endured. In a stark, unsettling arc, a man conscripted into the army chooses to feign insanity to escape duty, only to find that the boundary between performance and reality grows increasingly unstable. As the story unfolds, memory fractures and returns in shifting forms, creating a labyrinth of pasts that tests the limits of testimony, identity, and moral responsibility. With Imre Kertész’s austere, incisive style, the novel turns inward as much as it moves forward, exploring trauma, survival, and the painful difficulty of writing the unsayable.
Available Editions
paperback
El Acantilado
Published Jan 1, 2004
371 pages
ISBN: 9788496136069
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Details
First Published
1988
Language
hun
Translation
From: hun
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Fiasco by Imre Kertész.