by Agota Kristof · AMSTERDAM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788417918118
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«L'analfabeta» is the life testimony of Agota Kristof, published by Àmsterdam in hardcover (96 pages, in Catalan).
Account of the life of Agota Kristof: her childhood in Hungary, the war, the occupation, exile and solitude in a country of strange language. Reading and writing are the stubborn refuge that leads her to write in the host language and to make her way in French literature. Includes an interview by Riccardo Benedettini.
Translation from the French by Montserrat Solé i Serra. First edition, Barcelona, 2019.
For readers of memoirs and autobiographical works, and for those interested in literary creation in an adopted language.
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
