Ebook {Epub PDF} Detective Story by Imre Kertész

In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality. "Detective Story", Hungarian Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz's novella is set in a prison in an unnamed South American country. An oppressive regime has just been overturned and the protagonist, former secret police detective Antonio Martens, is sitting in prison after a trial and conviction for the unlawful arrest, torture, and execution of Enrique Salinas and his father Federigo/5(10). As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret.

Detective Story (Paperback) Published January 1st by Vintage Books. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. [] As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story. Detective Story was originally published in Hungarian in January External links: buy from www.doorway.ru - buy from www.doorway.ru or www.doorway.ru - review and links at the Complete Review - share this review on Facebook or Twitter Related reviews: Imre Kertesz - Fatelessness - Imre Kertesz - Kaddish for a Child Not Born.

"Detective Story continues Kertesz’s exploration of the existential plight of the individual under tyranny’s jackboot. It is a masterful addition to his other translated novels. The subject, as ever with Kertész, is tyrannical regimes and their consequences, though here he has moved the territory to South America. Detective Story is the memoir, or confession, of Antonio Martens, a lieutenant of the secret police in a recently deposed dictatorship, now awaiting trial in prison. The story is introduced by his defence lawyer. Originally published just a year after Fatelessness, Detective Story is a slender volume reminiscent, in terms of style and subject, of Roberto Bolaño’s novellas By Night in Chile and Distant Star. Set in an unnamed Latin American nation shortly after a dictator’s overthrow, it serves as Kertész’s at tempt to understand systematic, government sponsored evil not from the perspective of a victim, as in Fatelessness,but from that of a perpetrator.