Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Imre Kertész’s remarkable work “Kaddish for an Unborn Child” looks into the challenges faced by a Holocaust survivor. The main character a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer explains to a friend why he cannot raise a child in a society where such tragedies are tolerated. The narrator’s failing marriage his lackluster writing career the Holocaust and his Jewish identity are all discussed in the novel. It’s an interesting story that explores the idea of individual accountability in a world tainted by past tragedies.
About the Author
Kertész was fourteen when he was deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, survived, came home to Budapest and spent the communist decades writing in obscurity, translating from German to eat. Fatelessness took him thirteen years and was rejected on first submission; it describes a boy’s…
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