War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges · 31 Aug 2002 · 218pp · 61,301 words
Night’s Dream quality to the war experience, as if no one can quite remember what happened. “The nationalist is by definition an ignoramus,” wrote Danilo Kiš, the Yugoslav writer. “Nationalism is the line of least resistance, the easy way. The nationalist is untroubled, he knows or thinks he knows what his
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or historical will. All is dedicated to promoting and glorifying the myth, the nation, the cause. The works of the writers in Serbia, such as Danilo Kiš and Milovan Djilas, were mostly unavailable during the war. It remains hard even now to find their books. In Croatia the biting satires of Miroslav
Danube (Panther)
by Claudio Magris · 10 Jan 2011 · 459pp · 154,280 words
kitsch; here he would have found a truly scandalous example of such kitsch. Fakery seems to be the poetry of Subotica. In the imagination of Danilo Kiš, the bewitching chronicler of the place, fakery becomes not only the appalling falsification of life brought about by Stalinism but also the clandestine split personalities
Lonely Planet Western Balkans
by Lonely Planet, Peter Dragicevich, Mark Baker, Stuart Butler, Anthony Ham, Jessica Lee, Vesna Maric, Kevin Raub and Brana Vladisavljevic · 1 Oct 2019 · 990pp · 250,044 words
. Only his early novels The Time of Miracles (1965), The Houses of Belgrade (1970) and How to Quiet a Vampire (1977) are available in English. Danilo Kiš (1935–89) was an acclaimed author of the Yugoslav period whose novels translated into English include Hourglass (1972) and A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1976
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regime. The Houses of Belgrade (Borislav Pekić; 1970) Unusual tale of a reclusive landlord stepping out of his postwar isolation. The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Danilo Kiš; 1983) A collection of nine short stories by the internationally acclaimed Yugoslav author. Best on Film No Man’s Land (2001) Oscar winner focusing on
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April (1978). Other classics include Meša Selimović’s Death and the Dervish (1966), Miloš Crnjanski’s Migrations (1929), The Encyclopaedia of the Dead (1983) by Danilo Kiš and Miha Mazzini’s Crumbs (1987). Comtemporary authors worth seeking out include Ivana Bodrožić, Slavenka Drakulić, Dubravka Ugrešić, David Albahari, Svetislav Basara, Miljenko Jergović, Ismet
Red Plenty
by Francis Spufford · 1 Jan 2007 · 544pp · 168,076 words
P. Whitney (London: Collins/Harvill, 1975), pp. 410–30. For a fictional representation, drawing on the Siberian experience of the imprisoned Yugoslav Karlo Stajner, see Danilo Kis, ‘The Magic Card Dealing’ (story), in A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, translated anonymously from the Serbian (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978). 11 Couple of
Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
by Ray Taras · 15 Dec 2009 · 267pp · 106,340 words
killing, and wars—that set this world apart.27 Moraru reviews the ascribed status of writers from the region: “Milan Kundera, Milorad Pavić, Péter Esterházy, Danilo Kiš, Ismail Kadare, Joseph Brodsky, and the like are supposed to ‘speak for’ and come, as Philip Roth notes, from this ‘other Europe.’ Following as they
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder · 14 Sep 2017 · 69pp · 15,637 words
what happens in the real world.” Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism “has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.” A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means