by Imre Kertész · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807016738
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«Liquidazione» is the novel by Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize in Literature, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (115 pages, in Italian).
Keserü, editor and friend of B., writer and translator, tries to discover why B. committed suicide and to find his last unpublished novel, convinced that it holds the explanation of pain and existence. The work uses letters, theatrical texts and stories to reflect the liquidation of a publishing house, the end of communism and the loss of references.
The novel was originally published in 2003 under the title «Felszámolás»; this Italian edition translated by Antonio Sciacovelli belongs to the collection «I Narratori».
For readers interested in contemporary European fiction and in the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Imre Kertész.
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.
