I took a stroll in the city. It was infernally hot. The usual evening hubbub around me. Lovers on the pavements, hurrying to cinemas and other places… - Imre Kertész

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I took a stroll in the city. It was infernally hot. The usual evening hubbub around me. Lovers on the pavements, hurrying to cinemas and other places of amusement as if nothing had happened, nothing. Living their nonexistent lives. Or do they exit, and it’s me who doesn’t.

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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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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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