Cognitive science research offers new insights into the structures of empathy, and scholars
are beginning to apply that research to reader reception of literature. Teachers of Holocaust …

Although the emergence of research on women in the Holocaust dates from the 1980s, the
task of integrating the role of women—and that of children—into Holocaust Studies is far …

Musik kann zweifellos als Medium, aber auch als intermediales Phänomen aufgefasst
werden. In dieser Perspektive bewegt sie sich zwischen den Polen Sprechen und …

In order to place Imre Kertész's novel Sorstalanság (Fatelessness) in a comparative cultural
context, I discuss briefly representative Hungarian and foreign works dealing with the …

Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on 9 November 1929 to an assimilated Hungarian-
Jewish family. In 1944, at the age of 14, he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death …

The current paper explores the main Hungarian literary representations of Buchenwald.
While the discussion below presents the most relevant historical facts, relates to …

In his novel Fatelessness, Imre Kertész shares a fundamental idea elaborated by Hannah
Arendt in her Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Arendt defined a …

In 1983, Milan Kundera wrote a compelling and highly polemic article titled “L'Occident
kidnappe,” translated a year later into English under the title “The Tragedy of Central …

Among the various analyses that examine Imre Kertész's Fateless, little attention has been
paid to the relationship between body and narrative. Using Julia Kristeva's concept of the …

This article explores philosophical themes in Imre Kertész's novel Fateless. More
specifically, it offers a reading of Fateless from a perspective of trauma theory and of the …