How did Kertész approach writing about the Holocaust?
I approached it not as a journalist or a historian, but as a survivor grappling with the very essence of his own existence. The language of the abyss, the stark reality of the camps, demanded a different kind of prose, one that eschewed grand narratives and embraced the deeply subjective. 'Fatelessness' was an attempt to distill the experience to its rawest form, to show how the individual is rendered seemingly impotent, a pawn of fate. My method was one of meticulous introspection, of endlessly circling the unutterable, seeking a truth that resided not in external facts, but in the inner landscape of enduring.
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