“For me this is a fact, writing is necessity, I don’t know why, but it seems it was the only solution offered to me, even if it doesn’t solve anything; still it doesn't leave me…”

—  Imre Kertész , book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

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