Fatelessness (29 page)
Authors: Imre Kertesz
Sick bay or infirmary.
“What? You still want to live?”
“Here, please! I’m done!”
“What about you?” “Oh, me . . .”
Broken German: “You, wait here. Me go. A moment back. Understand?”
“Two/four corpse-bearers with one/two stretchers to the gate at once!”
“Senior camp inmate, get them on parade! Senior camp inmate, where are the Jews?”
“Sonofabitch!”
“Camp senior inmates! The entire camp to fall in!”
“Where’s the one with the small wound here?”
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, NOVEMBER 2004
Copyright © 2004 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Hungary as Sorstalanság by Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó. Copyright © 1975 by Imre Kertész. This translation published by arrangement with Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kertész, Imre, 1929–
[Sorstalanság. English]
Fatelessness : a novel / by Imre Kertész ; translated from the
Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.—1st Vintage International ed.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-0-307-42587-4
1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Fiction. 2. Budapest
(Hungary)—Fiction. I. Wilkinson, Tim. II. Title.
PH3281.K3815S6713 2004
894’.511334—dc22 2004057217
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