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Hourglass
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.
Biography and Other Poems
Known as a master of short fiction from the late twentieth-century, Yugoslav author Danilo Kis was a devoted poet from his early years until his death in 1989. This book brings together selected poems by Kis in English translation for the first time.
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
In these stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes- the multitude of details that make up a human life.
The Lute and the Scars
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.
Encyclopedia of the Dead
Eight stories explore the diverse nature of humanity in a style of prose that has the richness of poetry
The Prose Fiction of Danilo Kiš, Serbian Jewish Writer
Analyzes three pseudo-autobiographical novels by Kiš (1935-1989), constituting his "family cycle": "Garden, Ashes" (1965), "Early Sorrows" (1969), and "Hourglass" (1972). Kiš was born to a Hungarian Jewish father and a Montenegrin mother. The war caught his family in Novi Sad, in the Hungarian-annexed part of Vojvodina, where his father Eduard Kiš narrowly escaped being killed (by the Hungarians) during a massacre of Jews and Serbs in January 1942. His family fled to Hungary, where they lived as destitute refugees until Eduard was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The three books are based on the experiences of Danilo Kiš and his family during the war. The books are three attempts, varying in genre, to come to terms with the painful experiences of Kiš's childhood and the disappearance of his father in the Holocaust.
The Attic
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.
Early Sorrows
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.
Garden, Ashes
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.
Night and Fog
This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematic ouevre of the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia – 1989, Paris). Coming from a multicultural background, Kis was a living antipode to the emerging nationalisms of the late 20th century. The seven dramas and screenplays are accompanied by a historical introduction by the translator. Written in mid-career, the themes of these seven works vary widely. Two address classical themes, one is a dramatization Kis's own A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, and the others, explore the Holocaust and first decades of socialism in Tito's Yugoslavia and Hungary. What they have in common is Kiš's ear for precise language...
