Imre Kertész’s Hungary: a country on the wrong side of history | Florence Noiville
Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertész tells Le Monde literary critic Florence Noiville of his despair at the culture of hatred consuming his countryImre Kertész receives us in slippers, resting on his walking stick and warning us without humour: “One of the consequences of me taking medication is that I am not dead, as one would expect, but I often have to search for my words. ” The first Hungarian winner of the Nobel prize for literature – in 2002 – is the author of The Holocaust as Culture, A Breath-long Silence, While the Fire Squad is Reloading Their Guns and A Language in Exile, among others.
published date:Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:36:00 GMT
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Imre Kertész’s Hungary: a country on the wrong side of history | Florence Noiville
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Imre Kertész’s Hungary: a country on the wrong side of history | Florence Noiville
Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertész tells Le Monde literary critic Florence Noiville of his despair at the culture of hatred consuming his countryImre Kertész receives us in slippers, resting on his walking stick and warning us without humour: “One of the consequences of me taking medication is that I am not dead, as one would expect, but I often have to search for my words. ” The first Hungarian winner of the Nobel prize for literature – in 2002 – is the author of The Holocaust as Culture, A Breath-long Silence, While the Fire Squad is Reloading Their Guns and A Language in Exile, among others.
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