by Imre Kertész · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807817762
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Being Without Destiny is a novel by Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. The story follows György Köves, a 14-year-old Hungarian Jewish boy who is deported to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. Through György's eyes, Kertész explores the nature of the Holocaust and the experience of living in a concentration camp. The novel is written in a simple and direct style, and avoids sentimentality and rhetoric. Instead, Kertész focuses on György's sensory experience and his struggle to understand the world around him.
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
