ÎNGROPAT ÎN CER: IMRE KERTÉSZ, KADIȘ PENTRU COPILUL NENĂSCUT

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Name: Cristina Deutsch
Affiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române.

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Citation Recommendation: DEUTSCH, Cristina. „Îngropat în cer: Imre Kertész, Kadiș pentru copilul nenăscut”. In: RITL, New Series, X, No. 1-4, January-December 2016, p. 427–437.
Titlul: ÎNGROPAT ÎN CER: IMRE KERTÉSZ, KADIȘ PENTRU COPILUL NENĂSCUT
Title: BURIED IN THE SKY: IMRE KERTÉSZ, KADDISH FOR AN UNBORN CHILD
Pages: 427-437
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2016/29_C_Deutsch.pdf

Abstract: 2002 Nobel Literature Prize Winner, Imre Kertész, in his novel Kaddish for an Unborn Child, configures a path of Jewishness as “reconceptualization of the future” caused by the traumatic postHolocaust historical circumstances. Denying the possibility of giving birth to a child is an issue entwined with the idea of the auctorial self release by using the compulsory recording on paper as a genuine weapon of memory. The article examines both the problems of the literary text as such, the authenticity of the novel, and the hero’s evolution from a traumatic childhood to the survivor’s adulthood, analyzing the complexity of his passage through the triad “birth / life / death”, each of these instances being mirrored in multiple manners by the characters’ denial of assuming his own emptied of meaning Ego being “thrown into the world”.

Keywords: Hungarian literature, Jewishness, childhood, Post-Holocaust studies, cultural identity, totalitarianism, conservation of memory

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