The Union Jack
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Author
Contributions
- Wilkinson, Tim. - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Melville House, Brooklyn, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
19,000 words, Guess
Page Count
76 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveunionjackthecont00kert
- ISBN-139781933633879
- ISBN-101933633875
- Library of Congress Control Number2009037830
- OCLC Control Number326533838
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781933633879
- Open LibraryOL23735848M
Classifications
- DDC894/.511334
- LCCPH3281.K3815 A5413 2009
- LCCPH3281.K3815A5413
Description
"An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack - the British Flag - during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, partly a digressive meditation on "the absurd order of chance," he recalls his youthful self, and the epiphanies of his intellectual and spiritual awakening - an awakening to a kind of radical subjectivity. In his Nobel address Kertesz remembered: "I, on a lovely spring day in 1955, suddenly came to the realization that there exists only one reality, and that is me, my own life, this fragile gift bestowed for an uncertain time, which had been seized, expropriated by alien forces, and circumscribed, marked up, branded - and which I had to take back from 'History', this dreadful Moloch, because it was mine and mine alone...""--BOOK JACKET.
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