1-Before the interview, the presenter visits a monument to the Holocaust created by the American artist Peter Eiserman. Considering the shapes, architecture and general design, in what ways do you think he represents the reality in the concentration camps?
The artist Peter Eiserman represents the reality in the concentration camps by using big rectangular concrete structures, with that structures he shows the felling of imprisonment that the Jews felt when they were at the concentration camps. They couldn't do anything about being at the camps, the same felling you have when you are surrounded by concrete walls, you can't do nothing about.
2-Which is the paradox the presenter mentions regarding Imre Kertész and the place where he lives?
The paradox is that he feels free, more than any where else in Europe, is in Berlin, the capital of the country that once wanted to kill him, than his own country.
3-Refer to antisemitism before and after Auschwitz according to Kertész.
The ones who are antisemites after Auschwitz want a new Auschwitz while the ones that are/were before don't want a new Auschwitz.
4-In what way do reminders of the past in historical books make us “much richer”?
The remainders of the past in historical books can make us much richer because they give use the information of what happened in the past, so (in the case of the Holocoust) if we don't study it and know about it, it will happen again.
5-Which metaphor does Imre use to exemplify the effect of FATELESSNESS on its readers?
"It continued to worry our souls, and now it knocks from inside that cabinet where we thought we had locked it up" The effect that Imre metaphor is trying to show is that the readers, even if they say that the Holocoust happened a long time ago, the memories of that time, of the things that happened in that time are disturbing the people, they remember the suffering that happened at that time.
