1.- You feel like in a concentration camp because of the size of the stone blocks, and because they are all so together. It makes you feel vulnerable, and that must have been the feeling that the people in the concentration camps must have felt.
2.- The paradox that is presented at the beginning is that he lives in Germany, the country that once wanted to kill him. According to Imre Kertesz this is the place where he feels free, so he can't live in any other place.
3.- Those who are antisemites after Auschwitz want a new Auschwitz. Those who were antisemites before Auschwitz, wasn't real antisemites (acording to Imre Kertesz).
4.- They can make us much richer if those reminders are told from a complete different perspective. If we ignore them, it can happen again.
5.- When he published "Fatelessness", everyone told him that it was a great novel, but today nobody is interested anymore. The same thing can happen with the holocaust. People will forget it.
