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Detective Story Hardcover - 2008
by Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson (Translator)
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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, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.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, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz 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 police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, and what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique's aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive and then targeted his father. Once this plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end - the destruction of an entire liberal class.Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalising world of evil and see first-hand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time.
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- Title Detective Story
- Author Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American E
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780307266446 / 0307266443
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.54 x 5.32 x 0.64 in (19.15 x 13.51 x 1.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Political crimes and offenses, Murders
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007040216
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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