The Smell of Humans
A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary
Ernô Szép
"An author whose voice is well worth discovering."
- Slavonica, John D. Klier, University College
London,
As well as providing a piece of distinctively Central
European autobiographical literature, this detailed
and imaginative short memoir is also an important document
of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. The Smell of Humans
relates the events following the German occupation of
Hungary in March 1944, focusing on the author's own
three week internment in a forced labour camp. This
vivid and detailed portrayal of events reflects Hungary's,
and indeed Europe's, historical legacy and reveals the
voice of a man who remarkably harbored no bitterness
in his soul.
Szép's tone is a meld of stupefaction and irony. Without
overtly condemning or succumbing to despair, he describes
a series of events along progressively grosser stages
of infamy.
1994
204 pages
ISBN 978-1-85866-014-1 cloth $41.95 / €35.95 / £28.00
ISBN 978-1-85866-011-0 paperback $24.95 / €22.95 / £18.99
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