fateless（非關命運）

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《非關命運》是諾貝爾文學獎得主因惹‧卡爾特斯的第一本小說，作者在書中回溯自己生命中的重要經歷，手法細膩誠實。透過主角少年卡維的心靈與眼睛，極度真實地描寫出一段集中營歲月，其中有苦、有恐懼，卻也有美好的回憶。
★ 少年卡維認為，這就是他的命運。過去即便不堪回首，但也永遠無法抹滅。生命不可能重新來過，因此只能欣然接受。生命本就是如此，在不幸中看見希望，在心酸裡隱藏著幸福.....

★ Fourteen-year-old Gyuri’s father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm’s book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assigned to a “permanent workplace” but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus on his way to work and detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to and subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz.
On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer. Fatelessness’ power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust and in the strength, and strangeness, of its narrative voice.

Imre Kertész, who was born in 1929 in Budapest. As a youth, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and later in Buchenwald. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing Fateless, his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.