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Hungarian Imre Kertsz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the personal and the historical. In The Holocaust as Culture ,Kertsz recalls his childhood in Buchenwald and Auschwitz and as a writer living under the so-called soft dictatorship of communist Hungary. Reflecting on his experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary following World War II, Kertsz likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism. He also discusses the complex publication history of Fateless , his acclaimed novel about the experiences of a Hungarian child deported to Auschwitz, and the lack of interest with which it was initially met in Hungary due to its failure to conform to the communist governments simplistic history of the relationship between Nazi occupiers and communist liberators. The underlying theme in the dialogue between Kertsz and Cooper is the difficulty of mediating the p

Who reads The Holocaust as Culture?

Author

Imre Kertész

Publisher

UNIV OF CHICAGO Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857420220

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14