NMLP P-011871 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
Fatelessness (Sorstalanság)
Imre Kertész · Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó (Budapest) · 1975
There is no notable book-club edition of the Hungarian first; the real trap is edition/translation conflation. Later Hungarian reprints exist under Szépirodalmi (a second edition appeared in 1985) and, from the late 1990s, under Magvető (which became the author's Hungarian publisher; e.g., a 1999 Magvető edition) — these carry different dates/imprints (and different ISBNs) and are NOT the 1975 first. On the English side, the Northwestern 1992 Fateless was reprinted (including later paperbacks), and the post-Nobel 2004 Knopf Fatelessness saw large trade and later Vintage International printings; a Knopf copy with a "First Edition" statement and a number line ending in 1 marks that translation's true first, but it is still a translation, not the original first edition. Watch especially for post-2002 Nobel-driven reprints of the Hungarian text sold as "firsts."
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-011871 for "Fatelessness (Sorstalanság)" by Imre Kertész (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011871, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).