Detective Story

Written by Imre Kertesz (winner of 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature), Detective Story is a universal depiction of the abuses of power – to detain and torture - under a totalitarian regime. The story is told on the point of view of Antonio Martens, a relatively new member of the Corps, who is now on trial. He relates the Corps’s paranoiac discharge of its duties of seeing order, protecting the state, and ending resistance to the state. Martens’ story focuses on the investigation, instigated by the mastermind of the intelligence Diaz who is now a fugitive, of a wealthy businessman and his son, who obviously have done nothing wrong.

The novel is thought provoking.

(September 21, 2009)