Encyclopedia of the Dead (European Classics) - Softcover

Kis, Danilo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081011514X ISBN 13: 9780810115149

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The most famous collection of short fiction by acclaimed Yugoslavian writer Danilo Kis. In these nine stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes—the multitude of details that make up a human life. Kis combines fiction and history in postmodern style, and in a postscript provides fascinating historical backgrounds and other notes for the reader that add interest and context. An enduring classic of Slavic literary fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

Danilo Kiš (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш) (February 22, 1935–October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer and poet who wrote in Serbo-Croatian. Kiš 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.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Serbo-Croation

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 081011514X
• ISBN 13: 9780810115149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201