El espectador

Imre Kertész's diaries, published in several volumes, comprise half a century of extraordinary life and offer an intimate account of the writer's thought and work. The Diario de la galera, the heartbreaking testimony of thirty years of isolation in socialist Hungary between 1961 and 1991, is followed by La Ultima posada, which contains his notes between 2001 and 2009, a period in which the writer was diagnosed with the serious illness that he suffered until his death. The spectator, who gathers his notes between 1991 and 2001, concludes this particular trilogy. In these lucid reflections on the last stage of his life, the writer examines the change of political regime after the dissolution of the USSR, the disheartening drift from Hungary in recent decades and the role of public intellectual that his growing fame imposed on him. of the. And, as the years pass and he says goodbye to the people he loves most, he contemplates the landscape of loneliness and prepares to leave.