Danilo Kis

Encyclopaedia of the Dead

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Continuing the European Classics series, here is the first paperback edition of . . . one of the finest fantastic collections since Borge's FICCIONES (THE NATION). In these stories Danilo Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes--the multitude of details that make up a human life. Remarkable . . . . A shadow of death darkens this book, but it is a beautiful shadow and a luminescent darkness.--THE NEW REPUBLIC.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Heim, Michael Henry (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8101-1514-9
EAN: 9780810115149
Produktnummer: 9157826
Verlag: Northwestern University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 250 g
Gewicht: 250
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Danilo Kis (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш) (February 22, 1935-October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer and poet who wrote in Serbo-Croatian. Kis was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Ivo Andrić, among other authors. His most famous works include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead. Michael Henry Heim (born January 21, 1943) is a Professor of Slavic Languages, at the University California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his doctorate at Harvard in 1971. He is an active and prolific translator, and is fluent in Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian.