Fiasko von Imre Kertesz

Lively, full of (linguistic) wit and (self-)irony, the “old man” describes his cramped Budapest apartment in which he wrote a rejected concentration camp novel.
Imprisoned in an educational dictatorship, he experienced ostracism, denunciation and the arbitrariness of state security. Without charges, he fights in vain for rehabilitation. In a permanent existential crisis, he sifts through his notes, wrestles with the past and feels Auschwitz living on inside him.
In a breathless monologue to his unborn child, he justifies his no to offspring, convinced that “a grave in the clouds” has already been dug for him too.