A Study Of Trauma Writing In Kertész Imre’s "Fateless Tetralogy"

His unique experiences and cultural environment have given rise to Kertész Imre’s unique postmodern writing style.His "Fateless Tetralogy" uses a detached and dispassionate brushwork to speak of individual fatelessness,showing the symptoms of personal and social trauma.The experience of Auschwitz gives Kertész a unique perspective on racial,war and cultural trauma.Kertész attempts to combine the grand historical context with the fate of the individual through literary creation,constructing a real imagination with the help of aesthetic imagination,and thus restoring the historical reality of the Holocaust.Through the unaccusatory description of individual fate,he reflects heavily on the collective destiny without fate.This paper takes four novels written by Kertész Imre,Fatelessness,Fiasco,Kaddish For An Unborn Child,and The Clearance,as the main research objects,and explores the trauma writing in Kertész’s novels with the help of trauma theory.This thesis is divided into the following five parts: the first part is the introduction.The first part is the introduction,which firstly gives a brief introduction to Kertész Irem and his works,followed by an overview of the current state of domestic and international research on the works,and finally a summary of the concept of literary trauma narrative.The second part focuses on the multiple forms of trauma writing in Kertész’s novels.This paper classifies and analyzes the trauma writing in Kertész’s works,interpreting them in terms of racial trauma,war trauma and cultural trauma,and explaining the deeper connotation of Kertész’s trauma writing.The third part focuses on the strategies of trauma writing.Combining the trauma symptoms in the sense of pathology with the narrative art employed by Kertész,the third part elaborates on the spatial and temporal structure of trauma narratives,the language of trauma narratives,and the perspective of trauma narratives expressed in the text.The fourth part examines the significance of the author’s trauma writing,analyzes the methods of healing trauma contained in the author’s trauma writing from three aspects:racial trauma,war trauma and cultural trauma,illustrates the universal social significance of trauma writing in Kertész’s novels,and reflects on the current situation.The fifth part is the conclusion,which summarizes the viewpoints and evaluates Kertész’s trauma writing as a whole,trying to inspire the traumatized groups to face the trauma,so as to better help the traumatized groups to get out of the trauma.