Danilo Kiš

The encyclopedia of the dead

"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

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

A Novel

Garden, Ashes

za decu i osetljive

Rani jadi

Danilo Kis

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

The Encyclopedia of the Dead

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

Bašta, pepeo

John K. Cox

Against a background of oppression and exile, the debate between death and writing continues unabated in The Lute and the Scars: death as allegory or symbolic act, and writing as the one impregnable defense, the only means of survival.

The Lute and the Scars

Danilo Kis̆

A collection of short stories which offer a meditation on the meaning and nature of love and death, from the revelations of the surviving lover of a Yiddish poet to the lavish funeral rites accorded to a prostitute in 1920s Hamburg. The author's other books include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.

Bordel muza

satirična poema

Mansarda

Novel about a woman and her infant son escaping from the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Based on the authors experiences and/or his family's experiences during World War II.

Psalam 44

Hür Yumer

Ölüler ansiklopedisi

This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematic ouevre of the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia - 1989, Paris).

The Collected Dramas and Screenplays of Danilo Kis

Night and Fog

Susan Sontag

A collection of the nonfiction writings of an acclaimed Serbian novelist and essayist offers examinations of such issues as nationalism, censorship, and literature

Essays and Interviews

Homo Poeticus

Trois jours et trois nuits durant des soldats passèrent devant notre maison. Pouvez-vous imaginer combien cela représente de soldats, quand ils passent pendant trois jours et trois nuits devant votre maison, sans interruption ! Ils étaient à pied et en charrette, à cheval et en camion. Trois jours et trois nuits durant. Et moi, je suis resté tout le temps dans ma cachette, sous le lilas. Le troisième jour dans l'après-midi, le dernier soldat passa. Il était resté loin derrière les autres. Il avait la tête bandée et portait un perroquet sur son épaule. J'attendis qu'il fût passé pour sortir du lilas. Rien ne laissait deviner que trois jours durant des soldats avaient traversé le village. Sauf peut-être le silence. Une enfance en Europe centrale pendant les années de guerre : un père persécuté, l'éveil douloureux de la sensualité, un château de rêve et de mystère, l'amitié d'un chien... Tout un monde vu par les yeux d'un enfant égaré à la campagne.

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