Imre Kertész citáty
Imre Kertész
Datum narození: 9. listopad 1929
Datum úmrtí: 31. březen 2016
Imre Kertész, maďarsky Kertész Imre , byl židovsko-maďarský spisovatel a nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 2002. Hlavním tématem jeho románů je pronásledování Židů během holocaustu. Wikipedia
Citáty Imre Kertész
„Jsem produkt evropské kultury, dekadent, pokud chcete, vykořeněný. Neoznačujte mě za Maďara.“
Zdroj: [Je Imre Kertész dostatečně maďarský pro státní vyznamenání?, ceskatelevize.cz, 2014-08-22, 2015-06-11, http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/283865-je-imre-kertesz-dostatecne-madarsky-pro-statni-vyznamenani/]
„V koncentračním táboře jsem zažil nejsilnější pocit štěstí. Neumíte si představit jaké to je ležet v táborové nemocnici nebo zažít desetiminutovou pauzu během nepopsatelné práce. Být velmi blízko smrti je také druh štěstí. A pouhé přežití představuje největší myslitelnou svobodu.“
Zdroj: [Zemřel jediný maďarský nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu Imre Kertész, rozhlas.cz, 2016-03-31, 2016-04-04, http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/literatura/_zprava/1598755]
„Nelíbí se nám, že žijeme. Netěší nás to. Ačkoliv život je nejspíš velká výsada, když za něj nakonec musíme zaplatit smrtí.“
Někdo jiný: Kronika jedné proměny
„Auschwitz, I told her, appears to me in the image of a father; yes, the two terms, Auschwitz, and father, resonate the same echoes in me, and if the observation is that God is an exalted father, then God, too is revealed to me in the image of Auschwitz.“
— Imre Kertész, kniha Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
„Anyone who wants something else is Jewish.“
Zdroj: Detective Story (2008), p. 13.
„I live and occasionally I look up at the glorious air or the clouds into which I keep digging my grave with my pen, diligently, like a forced laborer, whom they order every day to dig deeper with his spade…“
— Imre Kertész, kniha Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
„I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it, I suffer from it die of it.“
— Imre Kertész, kniha Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
„Survivors represent a separate species, just like an animal species.“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: Survivors represent a separate species, just like an animal species. We are all survivors, that is what determines our perverse and degenerate mental world. Auschwitz.
„Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.“
Zdroj: Detective Story (2008), p. 91.
Kontext: There was truth in Diaz’s logic, yes: our line of work is like that. Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.
„Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: But I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone. If you have a concept of the world, if you have not yet forgotten all that has happened, that you have a world at all, it is writing that has created that for you, and ceaselessly goes on creating it; Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.
„Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: But I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone. If you have a concept of the world, if you have not yet forgotten all that has happened, that you have a world at all, it is writing that has created that for you, and ceaselessly goes on creating it; Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.
„I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.“
— Imre Kertész, kniha Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Kontext: I am still here, although I don’t know why; accidentally, I guess, as I was born; I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.
„The régime was overthrown, and I'm not going to pretend it was me who overthrew it.“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: The régime was overthrown, and I'm not going to pretend it was me who overthrew it. A general liquidation is in full swing, and I'm not going to join in. I've become a spectator. And I'm not even spectating from the front rows in the stalls but from somewhere up in the gods. Maybe I'm worn out, but it could be that I never truly believed in what I believed. That would be the unseemlier alternative, because then they would have smashed my ear in for no reason at all. That is the assumption I'm inclining to these days. (He breaks off and ponders, book in hand.) I did time for no reason, dragged the millstone of a police record around for no reason, was on probation for years for no reason, and I'm no hero, I merely botched up my life.
„It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.“
Zdroj: Detective Story (2008), p. 66.
Kontext: "You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique."
"I’m living for the present, Dad."
"Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.
„For Kingbitter the Hamlet question did not run “To be or not to be?” but “Am I or am I not?”“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: For Kingbitter the Hamlet question did not run “To be or not to be?” but “Am I or am I not?”.
„What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves“
— Imre Kertész, kniha Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Kontext: What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves, that subversive, unknown individual constantly plotting against us, whom, estranged and alienated but still bowing with disgust before his might, we call, for the of simplicity, fate.
„Kingbitter undoubtedly could see solutions to hand, both better ones and worse; indeed, if he reflected more deeply, solutions were all he could see, rather than lives.“
Liquidation (2003)
Kontext: Thereafter, the scenes had succeeded one another, turn and turn about, in the drama as in reality, to the point that, in the end, Kingbitter did not know what to admire more: the author's-his dead friend's-crystal-clear foresight or his own, so to say, remorseful determination to identify with his prescribed role and stick to the story.
Nowadays, though, with the lapse of nine years, Kingbitter was interested in something else. His story had reached an end, but he himself was still here, posing a problem for which he more and more put off finding a solution. He would either have to carry on his story, which had proved impossible, or else start a new story, which had proved equally impossible. Kingbitter undoubtedly could see solutions to hand, both better ones and worse; indeed, if he reflected more deeply, solutions were all he could see, rather than lives.
