The expression of Imre Kertész's writing

Abstract

Imre Kertész's literary work has a predominant autobiographical character, being at the same time a work of fiction. His have been said to be autobiographical novels. The author rejects, however, this label: such a gender does not exist!, he says. The problem is -and his whole work only confirms the significance of this question- how to understand his writing: What is the relationship between writing, or language, and experience? And the relationship between language and world? -This work states that Kertész's ideas and the literary practice can only be well understood in the frame of a so-called hermeneutical-phenomenological thought. With the help of some basic ideas borrowed from Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, this study will try to explain what it could be called a non-mimetical (and non-subjective) concept of expression.