by Imre Kertész · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495359537
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«Sin destino» is Imre Kertész's novel about the Holocaust, published by Acantilado in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recounts a year and a half in the life of a Hungarian teenager deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It is not an autobiography, although it draws on the author's experience; with ironic detachment it shows how horror becomes routine and how arbitrariness and humiliation coexist with a strange idea of happiness.
Volume 15 of the Acantilado Narrativa collection. Translated from the Hungarian by Judith Xantus. Original title: «Sorstalanság» (1975).
For readers of twentieth-century classics and Holocaust literature, as well as for those wishing to approach the work of Nobel Prize 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.
