After reading this post modern novel, several questions pop up in my mind
-Can reality be so relative? can happiness be found in a concentration camp?
The protagonist suffers deprivation in many forms: freedom, hunger, medical care, etc. He is also discriminated within the prisoners and forced to work long hours in total uncertainty.
I would like to discuss the title: Fatelessness
On page 259 Georg states:
"I made it clear to them that we can never start a new life, only ever carry on the old one. I took the steps, no one else, and I declared that I have been true to my given fate throughout."
We could infer that he (a teenager) believes in every experience in a source of learning to build the type of person you are. Later on the same page he questions himself: "Why did they not wish to acknowledge that if there is such a thing as fate, then freedom is not possible?..()..--if there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate; that is to say--and I paused, but only long enough to catch my breath--that it to say, then we ourselves are fate, i realized all at once, but with a flash of clarity I had never experienced before"
I think this idea of living each step at the time to experience our fate or freedom (depending on the way we want to take it) also refers to understand that life, meaning happiness, pain, deprivation or joy happen in each minute, not in the past or the future.
