Thank you for you reply and link. I it is interesting to see how effective kertesz is in provoking the reader. Gyuri teaches us another perspective of what fate is! I hope my students can get and reflect upon this ideas...
Carla

:? After reading this post modern novel, several questions pop up in my mind -Can reality be so relative? can happiness be found in a concentration camp? The protagonist suffers deprivation in many forms: freedom, hunger, medical care, etc. He is also discriminated within the prisoners and forced to...

:o I'm an Esl teacher and I'm reading this book as part of the Language and Literature subject. The book is about a Jewish boy from Budapest who is taken to Auschwitz. I have to focus my lesson plans from the context perspective. This is part of the literature in translation that has to be studied i...