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| Best Sellers Rank | #378,189 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12,845 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #22,139 in Literary Fiction #38,855 in Genre Fiction |
| Customer reviews | 3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars (7) |
| Dimensions | 13.7 x 2.1 x 20.3 cm |
| Edition | Standard Edition |
| ISBN-10 | 1843432358 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1843432357 |
| Item weight | 281 g |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 144 pages |
| Publication date | 14 September 2006 |
| Publisher | Harvill Secker |
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This is the third book by Kertesz that I have read. "Fateless" was the best but "Kaddish to a Child not Born" was pretty good after I got used to the non-stop monologue format. "Liquidation" has a lot to offer as well but, frankly, I found the format a bit incoherant. The novella is about an Aushwitz survivor who took his life. We see most things through the eyes of our narrator, another concentration-camp survivor. The deceased was a writer and the narrator is a literary person as well. The narrator becomes obsessed with the notion that an author would not take his life without completing his opus first. Thus he examines the available writings he can find and pursues his search for the elusive novel. It is in this context that the truth reveals itself. Truth is hard to find if life seems to be a lie. That is, essentially, the focus of the message in "Liquidation". Since the message builds on itself much better than I can do it justice, I will not attempt to further define what our narrator discovers. However, I will say that my observation of Holocaust literature is that those that try to define what happened and give it meaning generally reach the same end. The Holocaust defies definition because we look to define in relation to our concepts of reality. What the literary Holocaust survivor shares with us, often, is a glimpse of a totally different reality but their ability to explain generally exceeds our ability to comprehend. In "Liquidation" Kertesz expands his message by giving us a debate about that reality through the perspectives of seperate Holocaust survivors. The debate enhances our efforts to understand but leaves us wondering if we have heard the conclusion or the introduction.
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