“Nothing has happened since Auschwitz that could reverse or refute Auschwitz. In my writingsthe Holocaust could never be present in the past tense.” The Hungarian 2002 Nobel Prize winner came to London on a very rare visit to talk about his work, including Fatelessness, the retranslated novel based on his experience as a 14-year-old trying to make sense of the utmost horror and absurdity of life in the death camps and the total lack of understanding that...