by Imre Kertész · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499225741
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«Kaddisch für ein nicht geborenes Kind» is the novel by Imre Kertész, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (155 pages, in German).
The narrator, a Hungarian Jewish writer and Auschwitz survivor, answers «no» when an acquaintance asks if he has children, and recalls that he also refused to have them in his marriage. The rest of the work is an extensive monologue in which he explains that renunciation, marked by the memory of the Holocaust, guilt, and the weight of history.
Original Hungarian work: «Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért»; German translation by György Buda and Kristin Schwamm (1999). Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
For readers interested in Holocaust literature and Central European narrative.
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.
