The fictional masterpieces of the great Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis-Hourglass: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich: Garden, Ashes; and The Encyclopedia of the Dead - established him as a figure of incomparable originality and eloquence in the spectrum of contemporary European literature. With this posthumous selection from his non-fiction made by Susan Sontag, who was a friend of Kis, the English-language reader will be able to admire an equally original, more polemical aspect of Kis's genius. Here is Kis on nationalism as kitsch ...
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The fictional masterpieces of the great Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis-Hourglass: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich: Garden, Ashes; and The Encyclopedia of the Dead - established him as a figure of incomparable originality and eloquence in the spectrum of contemporary European literature. With this posthumous selection from his non-fiction made by Susan Sontag, who was a friend of Kis, the English-language reader will be able to admire an equally original, more polemical aspect of Kis's genius. Here is Kis on nationalism as kitsch and collective paranoia, on the dilemmas of a Central European identity, on the dangers of censorship, on literature's struggle against banality, as well as on writers as different as Nabokov and Sade.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1995. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With the Remains of a Price Sticker on the Top Front Corner. 0374257914. Edited & With An Introduction by Susan Sontag. 283 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Serbia Yugoslavia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-Danilo Ki (February 22, 1935-October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian/Serbian writer of Hungarian/Jewish-Serbian origin. Danilo Ki was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Ki (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Ki (born Dragicevic) from Cetinje, Montenegro. In that time all Montenegrins concidered them to be Serbs. During World War II, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Ki graduated from high school in 1954. Ki studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960. In 1962 he published his first two novels, Mansarda and Psalam 44. Ki received the prestigious NIN Award for his Pecanik (‘Hourglass') in 1973, which he returned a few years later, due to a political dispute. During the following years, Ki received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry. He spent most of his life in Paris and working as a lecturer elsewhere in France. Ki was married to Mirjana Miocinovic from 1962 to 1981. After their separation, he lived with Pascale Delpech until his early death from lung cancer in Paris. A film based on Pecanik (Fövenyora) directed by the Hungarian Szabolcs Tolnai is currently in post-production. Ki was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was due to win it, were it not for his untimely death in 1989. inventory #23860.
