Danilo Kis

Encyclopedia of the Dead

Übersetzer: Heim, Michael Henry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780810115149
• ISBN-10: 081011514X
• Artikelnr.: 22067654

Autorenporträt

DANILO KIS (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш) (1935-1989) 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 Andric, among other authors. His most famous works include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead. MICHAEL HENRY HEIM (1943-2012) was 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.