LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUPERVISORY ORDER IN OTTLIK GÉZA AND IMRE KERTÉSZ’S NOVELS

Abstract

The author as a continuation of his study Introduction into the World of Cruelty: Civilisation, supervisory power and cruelty in Géza Ottlik’s works sums up the modes of cruelty found in the novel, and also shows how human order and world order are connected in the world of Géza Ottlik’s novels. He compares Ottlik’s main work with Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness, and points out the parallels which can be drawn between a cruel regime of surveillance and a concentration camp, or between the literary representation of them.