{"product_id":"9781935554295","title":"Fiasco","description":"By: Imre Kertész     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated into English at last, \u003ci\u003eFiasco \u003c\/i\u003ejoins its companion volumes \u003ci\u003eFatelessness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKaddish for an Unborn Child \u003c\/i\u003ein telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFiasco \u003c\/i\u003eas Imre Kertesz himself has said, \"is fiction founded on reality\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ea Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps-which, in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertesz' fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eours\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ethat made Auschwitz possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46761879437539,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781935554295","price":122.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781935554295.jpg?v=1751560625","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781935554295","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}