Nine years ago, B. killed himself with a heroin overdose, leaving behind manuscripts, including a play that exactly reproduced the scene of his friends' learning that the Hungarian state-supported publisher for which they work is to be liquidated. That event actually occurred after B.'s suicide, which also figures in the play, and this novel's narrator, who calls himself what he is called in the play, Kingbitter, reacted to B.'s demise as the play, which he hadn't yet seen, records him doing. Furthermore, the play foretold some of the other friends' destinies. The characters of 2002 Nobel laureate Kertesz's brief new novel represent a generation of middle-European intellectuals so alienated by history--Auschwitz and what it symbolizes, to be specific (B. was born in Auschwitz)--that, as Kingbitter observes more than once, for them the "Hamlet question" has become "Am I or am I not?" Non-European readers could be forgiven for failing to sympathize with them enough to enjoy the novel much.
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Imre Kertész
Filho de judeus, Imre Kertész nasceu em 1929, em Budapeste, e aos quinze anos foi deportado para Auschwitz e depois para Buchenwald e Zeitz, de onde saiu em 1945. De volta à Hungria, trabalhou por alguns anos como jornalista, e em meados da década de 1950 passou a viver de literatura, como tradutor e escritor. <i>O Fiasco</i> (2011) faz parte da trilogia formada por <i>Sem destino</i> (1975) e <i>Kadish, por uma criança não nascida</i> (1990). Recebeu diversos prêmios literários, incluindo o Nobel de Literatura de 2002. De acordo com a Academia Sueca, Kertész se destaca por "uma escrita que sustenta a vivência frágil do indivíduo contra a arbitrariedade bárbara da história."
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Pest, Hungria