- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781933633879
- Imprint: Melville House
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $29.99
The Union Jack











- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781933633879
- Imprint: Melville House
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $29.99
"Imre Kertész explores the possibility of continuing to live and think as an individual in an era in which the subjection of human beings to social forces has become increasingly complete." -- from the Nobel citation
"...[H]is approach to it is less documentary or memoir-driven, more an enormous effort to understand and find a language for what the Holocaust says about the human condition." -- George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement
"...[S]earching and visionary beyond the usual parameters." - Sven Birkerts, Bookforum
"In explaining something of the weight and importance of Kertész's subjects and creative achievements, it is hard to convey simultaneously the deftness and vivacity of his writing: his sheer joy in making something new with words. Tim Wilkinson must be deeply responsive to Kertész's delight in language to convey it so pervasively in his translations. There is something quintessentially youthful and life-affirming in this writer's sensibility..." - Ruth Scurr, The Nation
—George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement
"...Searching and visionary beyond the usual parameters."
—Sven Birkets, Bookforum
"In explaining something of the weight and importance of Kertész's subjects and creative achievements, it is hard to convey simultaneously the deftness and vivacity of his writing....There is something quintessentially youthful and life-affirming in this writer's sensibility..."
—Ruth Scurr, The Nation