Imre Kertesz, Hegel, and the philosophy of reconciliation

Under the rubric of sovereign resentment the author attempts to situate the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Amery and Vladimir Jankevitch, and above all the literary work of Kertesz. rejecting the drive to forgiveness, these three writers articulate stances of resentment aligned with the eternal, resisting, to the point of absurdity, all compulsion towards reconciliation.