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"The Reckoning" is the masterpiece novella by Kertés Imre, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature, and includes two chapters: "The Reckoning" and "The British Flag". "The Reckoning" is set in Hungary during the upheaval of Eastern Europe and is the last glimpse into the history of the Nazi concentration camps. A writer named B died at home. Literary editor Kescheru was convinced that B wrote a novel before he died. The novel tells the story of B's ​​"inexpressible experience" by describing the process of Kescheru's search for the missing novel. "The British Flag" uses poetic words and stream-of-consciousness techniques to tell the story of the "youth" who came out of the concentration camp in the gloomy time of the 1950s.

"Detective Story" is the masterpiece novella by Kertés Imre, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, and includes three chapters. The title story "Detective Story" is set in an imaginary South American country. The protagonist Martens is a secret policeman of the dictatorship. He participated in the crime of accusing Salinas and his son of treason and brutally murdering them. He wrote his confession in prison. In "The Tracer", the protagonist takes his mysterious mission to search for the old site of the concentration camp, hoping to find "traces" that can awaken historical memories, but he fails everywhere he goes. "Transcript" writes about the protagonist's experience taking an international train from Budapest to Vienna. These novels together form the outline and essence of Imre's novels.