Families and Homes

In Imre Kertész' eery, mordant novel of the Holocaust Fatelessness, the main character Georg in one scene is working one day in the labor camps when he accidentally cuts his finger. Looking up at the guard and wiping away the blood, he laughs, believing for an instant that they might share between them a chuckle at something plain and human. Instead, he is met with a scowl. Which sets Georg thinking about the situation in which he finds himself:

Refugee Variations

After Ernst Barlach's The Refugee (1920)

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