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The Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kiš

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The Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kiš

In these stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes- the multitude of details that make up a human life.

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Northwestern University Press

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081011514X

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9780810115149

The Lute and the Scars

By: Danilo Kis

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Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as "A and B") were transcribed from the manuscripts left by Danilo Kiš following his death in 1989. Like the title story, many of these texts are autobiographical. Others resurrect protagonists belonging to Kiš’s fellow Central European novelists, allowing readers to identify, perhaps, depending on the level of obfuscation, fantasy,and historical accuracy, figures dreamed up by Ödön von Horváth and Endre Ady ("The Stateless"), by the Yugoslavian Nobel laureate Ivo Andric (“Debt”), and by Piotr Rawicz. Against a background of oppressive regimes and political exile, readers will find that the never-ending debate between death and writing continues unabated in these stories—death as allegory or as a voluntary symbolic act, and writing as the one impregnable defense, writing as the only possible means of survival.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564787761

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9781564787767

Homo Poeticus

Essays and Interviews

By: Danilo Kis

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Homo Poeticus

Essays and Interviews

By: Danilo Kis

Serbian writer Danilo Kis was preoccupied with man's dehumanization in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His dazzling fiction established him as one of the most artful and eloquent authors of postwar Europe. In this first collection of his non-fiction, Kis displays the dynamic, sensitive, and insistently questioning approach to the dilemmas of the modern world that distinguishes his novels and stories and confirms his reputation as one of the most important voices of our time.

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302

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Macmillan

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0374529442

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9780374529444

Psalm 44

By: Danilo Kiš

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Psalm 44

By: Danilo Kiš

A last major work by the influential Serbian writer to be translated into English demonstrates his use of lyrical and unguarded language and is inspired by the stories of real inmates and warders at Auschwitz, including Dr. Mengele, whose experiences shaped the themes and patterns of Kis' subsequent writings.

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Serbian Literature

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1564787621

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9781564787620

Garden, Ashes

A Novel

By: Danilo Kiš

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Garden, Ashes

A Novel

By: Danilo Kiš

Garden, Ashes is the remarkable account of Andi Scham's childhood during World War II, as his Jewish family traverses Eastern Europe to escape persecution. As the family moves from house to house, the novel focuses on Andi's relationship with his father; he recounts the endless hours his father poured into the creation of his all-inclusive third edition of the Bus, Ship, Rail, and Air Travel Guide, to the bizarre sermons he delivered to his befuddled family, to his eventual disappearance and assumed death at Auschwitz. Despite the apocalyptic events fueling this family's story, Kis's writing emphasizes the specific details of life during this period, constructing a personal account of a future artist growing up under the shadow of the Nazis and in a world capable of containing a person as unique as his father.

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188

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Dalkey Archive Press

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156478326X

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9781564783264

The Attic

By: Danilo Kis

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The Attic

By: Danilo Kis

The Attic" is Danilo Kis's first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks his relationship with a colorful cast of characters with nicknames such as Eurydice, Mary Magdalene, Tam-Tam, and Billy Wise Ass. Rich with references to music, painting, philosophy, and gastronomy, this bohemian "Bildungsroman" is a laboratory of technique and style for the young Kis--at once a depiction of life in literary Belgrade, a register of stylistic devices and themes that would recur throughout Kis's oeuvre, and an account of one young man's quest to find a way to balance his life, his loves, and his art.

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Serbian Literature

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1564787346

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9781564787347

Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kis

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Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kis

Eight stories explore the diverse nature of humanity in a style of prose that has the richness of poetry

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228

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374148260

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9780374148263

Early Sorrows

For Children and Sensitive Readers

By: Danilo Kiš

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Early Sorrows

For Children and Sensitive Readers

By: Danilo Kiš

A group of linked stories that memorialize Danilo Kis's early years in a Yugoslavian village. The 19 pieces cover his crucial first bereavements and humiliations, striking various tones - from pastorals to exercises in humour.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213900

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9780811213905

The Lute and the Scars

By: Danilo Kis

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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Homo Poeticus

Essays and Interviews

By: Danilo Kis

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Macmillan

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Psalm 44

By: Danilo Kis

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Psalm 44

By: Danilo Kis

Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 shows Kiš at his most lyrical and unguarded, demonstrating that even in "the place of dragons . . . covered with the shadow of death," there can still be poetry. Featuring characters based on actual inmates and warders—including the abominable Dr. Mengele—Psalm 44 is a baring of many of the themes, patterns, and preoccupations Kiš would return to in future, albeit never with the same starkness or immediacy.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564787745

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Hourglass

By: Danilo Kiš

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Hourglass

By: Danilo Kiš

Of all Danilo Kis's books, HOURGLASS, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is generally considered his masterpiece. "A finely sustained, complex fictional performance. It is full of pain and rage and gusto and joy of living, at once side-splitting and a heartbreaker".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810115131

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9780810115132

The Attic

By: Danilo Kis

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The Attic

By: Danilo Kis

The Attic is Danilo Kiš’s first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks his relationship with a colorful cast of characters with nicknames such as Eurydice, Mary Magdalene, Tam-Tam,and Billy Wise Ass. Rich with references to music, painting, philosophy, and gastronomy, this bohemian Bildungsroman is a laboratory of technique and style for the young Kiš at once a depiction of life in literary Belgrade, a register of stylistic devices and themes that would recur throughout Kiš’s oeuvre, and an account of one young man's quest to find a way to balance his life, his loves, and his art.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564787753

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9781564787750

The Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kiš

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The Encyclopedia of the Dead

By: Danilo Kiš

A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sister and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; and the lives of every ordinary person since 1789 are brought to life in the almighty Encyclopaedia of the Dead. In this wide-ranging collection of stories about humanity, society and relationships, Kiš plays with the distinction between fact and fiction, horro and comedy, drawing on key influences such as James Joyce and Franz Kafka. This was Kiš's final work, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983.

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Penguin UK

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0141396997

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9780141396996

Garden, Ashes

A Novel

By: Danilo Kiš

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Garden, Ashes

A Novel

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Dalkey Archive Press

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Homo Poeticus

Essays and Interviews

By: Danilo Kiš

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Homo Poeticus

Essays and Interviews

By: Danilo Kiš

Serbian Danilo Kis, like Orwell before him, is preoccupied with the dehumanizing of man in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His fiction - including The Encyclopedia of the Dead and A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - established him as one of the original writers of postwar Europe. His antecedents include Borges and Bruno Schultz, the cosmopolitian and the small-town Polish Jew; his history exposed and extended his forms and styles.

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1857542266

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9781857542264

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

By: Danilo Kiš

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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

By: Danilo Kiš

Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature." Partisan Review

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564782735

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Psalm 44

By: Danilo Kis

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Psalm 44

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564787745

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The Legend of the Sleepers

By: Danilo Kiš

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The Legend of the Sleepers

By: Danilo Kiš

For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Penguin UK

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0241339383

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9780241339381

Early Sorrows

For Children and Sensitive Readers

By: Danilo Kiš

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For Children and Sensitive Readers

By: Danilo Kiš

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213900

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9780811213905

Psalm 44

Roman

By: Danilo Kis

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Psalm 44

Roman

By: Danilo Kis

Zum 30. Todestag am 15. Oktober 2019 erstmals übersetzt: Der zweite, wegweisende Roman von Danilo Kiš. Der erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzte Roman von Danilo Kiš aus dem Jahr 1962 erzählt von der Jüdin Maria, die 1944 mit ihrem sieben Wochen alten, im Lager geborenen Sohn aus Birkenau flieht. „Nie wieder hat Kiš das Thema der Judenverfolgung mit solcher Direktheit angegangen, gleichsam auf körperliche Art und in Nahaufnahme“, schreibt Ilma Rakusa in ihrem Nachwort. Die Geschichte der Flucht verwebt er kunstvoll mit Rückblenden aus der Kindheit Marias, wie die antisemitischen Übergriffe in der Schule und das Massaker von Novi Sad. „Psalm 44“ ist sowohl thematisch als auch sprachlich ein wichtiger Baustein des zum 30. Todestag am 15. Oktober nun vollständig übersetzten Werks.

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159

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Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG

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3446264892

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9783446264892

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