Book Review: Detective Story by Imre Kertész

May 14th 2009 12:12am

With Kafkaesque and Orwellian overtones, Nobel laureate's 1977 novel, now available in U.S., remains all too relevant today.Orwellian Kafkaesque Both terms are universally recognized shorthand for certain types of tales and get bandied about too often While the title of Detective Story by Imre Kertész calls to mind some hardboiled crime novelit is far more faithful to Orwell and Kafka than most other books for which those authors are invoked.

From: blogcritics.org



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