Tuesday, August 31, 2010

"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"

from nobelprize.org
Imre Kertész

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002

Imre Kertész

Prize motivation: "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
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