Word: fatelessness
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...Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee, "the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." Kertesz is grimly accepting of these ghastly events. His 1975 novel, Fateless, concerns a young boy shipped to Auschwitz who survives by conforming in thought and behavior. Within hours of the Nobel Prize announcement, his books sold out at Hungarian bookstores...
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