Ruth Klüger - Élni tovább

Translation by Boglárka Cziglényi

The book was a resounding success and a huge critical response in Europe and the United States. And it is truly exceptional that it speaks at the same time about a childhood lived in the shadow of threats and in the Theresienstadt camp, about what it meant to be a woman during the Holocaust, and what it means to be a survivor. With whom, when, how and at what price can this trauma be shared? The deeply moving and captivatingly intelligent work is deservedly placed by the European reception alongside the books of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.

RUTH KLÜGER (Vienna, 1931) is an Austrian writer who has lived in the United States since 1947. Today she is a professor emeritus at the University of California, author of five highly successful books, and winner of the Austrian National Literary Award as a critic. His memoir, which is now being published in Hungarian for the first time, was recognized with eight literary awards across Europe. His work is both novel and essay, philosophy and autobiography.