Dossier K

Imre Kertész · 2006 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Hungarian · Contemporary

Kertész interviews himself, answering questions about his Budapest childhood, his deportation to the camps and his decades as a writer under Kádár's Hungary. The form lets him argue with the public image the Nobel Prize gave him. It is the nearest he came to a straight autobiography.

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