Fatelessness

The Fateless ( ungar: Sorstalanság ) was written by the Hungarian writer and Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertész and first published in 1975.

He describes, from the perspective of a boy in Budapest, the 15 -year-old György, life in Hungary during the Second World War, the deportation to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the local warehouse environments. Kertész is even been there prisoner and processed in the work his personal experiences.

What is unusual about this novel is that the horror is described free of indignation and horror. Although György is with the events usually do not agree, however, the events experienced almost like an adventure novel, and often presses understanding of the consistency of each step in the process of industrially organized exploitation and murder of people. This perspective has led to comparisons with Franz Kafka's novel The Process, where the protagonist Josef K. is also adding to his fate in a disturbing manner.

The novel was in 2005 by Lajos Koltai under the German title Fateless - filmed Fateless.