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Title: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Eastern European Literature Series) by Danilo Kis, Joseph Brodsky, Duska Mikic-Mitchell ISBN: 1-56478-273-5 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful, jet disturbing
Comment: I have enjoyed this (and all other Danilo Kis's books) immensly.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the 20th Century's Best
Comment: This book of Kis' is a masterful work. The author said they are short stories but the publisher pushed it as a novel and in a way it is something between the two. The stories are seperate and there is not one main plot but a common theme runs through the work and occasionally characters from one story will reoccur or turn up in another story. They are connected though it seems in the sort of way as when someone might say it is a small world that we live in.
In his native land this book caused an uproar as the stories pass themselves off as fact but in Kis' style fact and fiction, history and imagination blend for a common aesthetic goal. This he picked up from Borges and his use of "document" in fiction.
All this helps the book stand out as a superior work of literature without even getting to the political theme of revolution and the role of individuals in mass movements.
This edition is perfect with the intro by Brodsky and William T. Vollmann's afterword.
A must read for anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: So Sad, So True
Comment: Beautifully written, surprisingly nonchalant portrayal of the actual driving force behind the Russian Communist Revolution, namely an international gang of charismatic professional criminals. Makes you think twice before you empathise with all the victims of Stalin's camps indiscriminantly - some of them obviously deserved their terrible fate.
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Title: The Encyclopedia of the Dead (European Classics) by Danilo Kis, Michael Henry Heim ISBN: 081011514X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bruno Schulz ISBN: 0140186255 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Garden, Ashes: A Novel (Eastern European Literature Series) by Danilo Kis, William J. Hannaher ISBN: 156478326X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: S.: A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic, Marko Ivic ISBN: 0140298444 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Polish Complex: A Novel (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Tadeusz Konwicki, Richard Lourie ISBN: 1564782018 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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