Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound de… - Imre Kertész

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Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on.

Imre Kertész

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Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 - 31 March 2016) is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

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Native Name: Kertész Imre

Alternative Names: Imre Kertesz • Kertész, Imre • Kertesz, Imre • I. Kertész • I. Kertesz • Imre Kertes • Kertes, Imre • I. Kertes • Imne K'erŭt'esŭ • K'erŭt'esŭ, Imne • Imra Kirtīs • Imrje Kjertijes • Imure Kerutēsu • I. K.

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The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.

A person’s true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on. - Imre Kertész

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