by Imre Kertész · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742784899
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«Être sans destin» is the novel by Imre Kertész, published by Actes Sud in paperback (368 pages, in French).
The work narrates the experience of a young Hungarian Jew from his arrest in Budapest to his liberation from the concentration camps, describing survival in a totalitarian universe with a sober and factual style.
Original title: «Sorstalanság» (1975). Translated from the Hungarian by Natalia Zaremba-Huzsvai and Charles Zaremba. Babel edition by Actes Sud, published in 2009.
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.
