I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it, I suffer from it die of it.


Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

Imre Kertész Quotes

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been,...

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been,...

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been,...

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been,...