The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary, Germany, and New Zealand. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's works including translations, and a bibliography of studies in several languages about his work.
Introduction to Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári
Imre Kertész and Hungarian Literature, by Enikő Molnár Basa
Imre Kertész, Jewishness in Hungary, and the Choice of Identity, by Sara D. Cohen
The Aporia of Imre Kertész, by Robert Eaglestone
Imre Kertész, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Reconciliation, by Amos Friedland
Identities of the Jew and the Hungarian, by András Gerő
Representing the Holocaust, Kertész’s Fatelessness and Benigni’s La vita è bella, by Bettina von Jagow
Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness as Historical Fiction, by Julia Karolle
Galley Boat-Log (Gályanapló): Excerpts, by Imre Kertész and translated by Tim Wilkinson
Reading Imre Kertész in English, by Adrienne Kertzer
Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness and the Myth about Auschwitz in Hungary, by Kornélia Koltai
The Historians’ Debate about the Holocaust in Hungary, by András Kovács
Imre Kertész and Hungary Today, by Magdalena Marsovszky
Imre Kertész’s Aesthetics of the Holocaust, by Sára Molnár
The Dichotomy of Perspectives in the Work of Imre Kertész and Jorge Semprún, by Marie Peguy
Imre Kertész and the Filming of Sorstalanság (Fatelessness), by Catherine Portuges
Danilo Kiš, Imre Kertész, and the Myth of the Holocaust, by Rosana Ratkovčić
Imre Kertész’s Jegyzőkönyv (Sworn Statement) and the Self Deprived of Itself, by Tamás Scheibner
Imre Kertész’s Kaddish for a Child Not Born, by Eluned Summers-Bremner
Imre Kertész’s Nobel Prize in Literature and the Print Media, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Holocaust Literature and Imre Kertész, by Paul Várnai
The Novelness of Imre Kertész’s Sorstalanság (Fatelessness), by Louise O. Vasvári
The Media and Imre Kertész’s Nobel Prize in Literature, by Judy Young
Book Review Article: Jewish Identity and Anti-Semitism in Central European Culture (Books by Lamping, Gilman and Steinecke, Goltschnigg and Steinecke, Suleiman and Forgács, and Wallas), by Barbara Breysach
A Bibliography of Imre Kertész’s Oeuvre and Publications about His Work, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Index
Bioprofiles of Contributors