Danilo Kis

For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls . . . ' After countless years insensible in a remote cave, the sleepers awake . . .

The Legend of the Sleepers

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.

Hourglass

Bahce, Küller

Obra maestra de la modernidad y piedra de escándalo en la ex-Yugoeslavia cuando fue publicada en 1976, Una tumba para Boris Davidovich indaga en los mecanismos del fanatismo y la intolerancia. El destino común de los personajes que pueblan sus páginas (revolucionarios y agentes secretos, idealistas y oportunistas, víctimas y verdugos) dibuja un crudo bajorrelieve en el que sobresalen las tentaciones humanas de exterminar al adversario y los mecanismos de opresión y anulación que tan hondas y terribles consecuencias tuvieron en nuestro pasado reciente. Como señala Joseph Brodsky en el texto introductorio que abre el presente volumen, éste es un libro atemporal, de una honda excelencia, que «dota a sus moribundas metamorfosis de una belleza adicional».

siete capítulos de una misma historia

Una Tumba para Boris Davidovich

Ud ve Yara Izleri

oluler Ansiklopedisi

Boris Davidovic Icin Bir Mezar

Salmo 44

A unique collection of the nonfiction writings of an acclaimed Serbian novelist and essayist offers intelligent and sensitive probings of such issues as nationalism, censorship, and literature, and features probing and revealing interviews.

Essays and Interviews

Homo Poeticus

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.

The Attic

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.

The Lute and the Scars

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.

Psalm 44

Los seres humanos no son intercambiables. Así nos lo muestra Danilo Kiš, en estas memorables parábolas sobre la vida, el amor y la muerte. De su mano, el lector descubrirá una enciclopedia en la que se conservan, a través del tiempo y más allá de los secos y neutros datos registrales, los periplos vitales de un sinnúmero de muertos. En la enciclopedia de Kiš, nómina de lo excepcional cotidiano, conviven personajes anónimos y legendarios—un heresiarca contemporáneo de Jesús o los durmientes del Sura XVIII—, se reviven hitos seculares de la infamia—la muerte de un patriota, el singular destino europeo de un libro maléfico—y el pensamiento se proyecta hacia lo metafísico. Al cabo, en cada una de estas historias, habremos de reconocer lo que constituye nuestra auténtica, y no intercambiable, especificidad humana.

Enciclopedia de los muertos

-- A jailed man watches his persecutors kill a man a day until he confesses to a crime he did not commit; a bloodbath ensues when a fourteenth-century Jew refuses to repent his faith; the editor of an Ukrainian paper impersonates a priest to prove to a visiting writer the existence of religious ceremonies under the Soviet regime. Juxtaposing journalistic prose with high lyricism, historical figures and invented situations, this grisly book is "a stunning statement on political persecution" (World Literature Today). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Novel

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Stories on a Yugoslav boy during World War II whose father is a Jew and whose mother is Christian. The stories portray his games--one of them is playing at Jew--and the day he sees his father deported to a death camp. By the author of Hourglass.

Xiang-Sun Zhang

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