The summer issue of The Paris Review will be out soon (according to this announcement). While there are several interesting articles/reviews/interviews mentioned, the one that caught my eye was an interview (supposedly the last one he’ll give) with Imre Kertész. I just started reading Fateless and needless to say I’m impressed. From the teaser in the announcement:

Imre Kertész: “Look, I don’t want to deny that I was a prisoner at Auschwitz and that I now have a Nobel Prize. What should I make of that? And what should I make of the fact that I survived, and continue to survive? At least I feel that I experienced something extraordinary, because not only did I live through those horrors, but I also managed to describe them, in a way that is bearable, acceptable, and nonetheless part of [a] radical tradition … Perhaps I’m being impertinent, but I feel that my work has a rare quality—I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.”

Mission accomplished. More on the book later this week.