Kaddish for an Unborn Child
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Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Hungarian: Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért) is a novel by Imre Kertész, first published in 1990 (ISBN 0810111616).
The novel deals with the struggles of a Holocaust survivor after the war, explaining to a friend why he cannot bring a child into a world that could allow such atrocities to happen. The book also deals with the narrator's failed marriage, his unsuccessful literary career, and the concept of his Jewishness.
Kertész won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
[edit] English translations
- Kaddish for an Unborn Child, tr. Tim Wilkinson, 2004, ISBN 1400078628
- Kaddish for a Child Not Born, tr. Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson, 1999, ISBN 0810111616
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| The Work of Imre Kertész | |
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| Novels: Sorstalanság | A nyomkereső | Detektívtörténet | A kudarc | Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért | Az angol lobogó | Gályanapló | A holocaust mint kultúra : három előadás | Valaki más : a változás krónikája | A gondolatnyi csend, amíg a kivégzőosztag újratölt | A száműzött nyelv | Felszámolás | |
| Short stories: Jegyzőkönyv | |
