The state is always the same. The only reason it financed literature up till now was in order to liquidate it. Giving state support to literature is … - Imre Kertész

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The state is always the same. The only reason it financed literature up till now was in order to liquidate it. Giving state support to literature is the state's sneaky way for the state liquidation of literature.

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About Imre Kertész

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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"You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique." "I’m living for the present, Dad." "Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it.

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