Imre Kertész: Kaddisch für ein nicht geborenes Kind

Translation: György Buda

Mr. B. sharply answers with a very sound “no” to an innocent query if he had any children. He continues to unwaveringly reject that he would have conceived a child during the marriage. In his monologue he than gives reasons why he has not started a new life after his return from Osvetim. He keeps murmuring kaddish, a Jewish funeral prayer, for a child that had never existed and tells a story of the difficulties of those who survived.