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	Amazon.ca: Encyclopedia of the Dead: Books: Danilo Kis,Michael Henry Heim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kis (Garden, Ashes) attempts to dazzle with his showmanship as he restlessly dons one stylistic mantle after another in this richly inventive collection of stories.
		Kis' writes in a wonderful type of lyrical documentary style, mixing fact and fiction (though it is difficult to tell sometimes whether the fact is not fiction and vice-versa), reminiscent of some of the contemporary younger western writers (namely, William T. Vollmann, who himself is a big fan).
		Kis mixes myths and legends of the Bible to: middle eastern legends, female intuition, patriotism, death anticipation due to long and difficult illness.
	www.amazon.ca /Encyclopedia-Dead-Danilo-Kis/dp/0374148260 (657 words)

	Danilo Kiš - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danilo Kiš (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш) (1935-1989) was a famous writer from Serbia (Yugoslavia).
		Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Serbia, as the son of a Montenegrin mother and his Jewish father.
		Kiš was married to Mirjana Miočinović from 1962 to 1981; after their separation he lived with Pascale Delpech, until his early death on October 15, 1989 in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danilo_Kis (279 words)

	Borges - Influence: Danilo Kis
		Danilo Kis was a Jewish Serbian-Hungarian author and poet whose untimely death in 1990 left tragically unfinished one of the most complex literary oeuvres to emerge from Central and Eastern Europe.
		Kis' first published work, A Garret is a semi-autobiographical tale which delves into the themes of love and maturity with a profoundly touching power and grace.
		Especially forceful is Kis' elaboration of the Borgesian concept of the tree of literature and its many ramifications, as presented in "A Lecture in Anatomy," probably one of the most insightful and poetic descriptions of modern literature ever written.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_infl_kis.html (741 words)

	Danilo II - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		DANILO II [Danilo II] (Danilo Petrović-Njegoš), 1826-60, prince of Montenegro (1851-60).
		Danilo and his brother Mirko defeated the Ottomans at Ostrong (1853) and at Grahovo (1858).
		Assassinated by a Montenegrin exile, Danilo was succeeded by his nephew, Nicholas I. Author not available, DANILO II.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-danilo2.html (278 words)

	Danilo Kis
		Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature..." Susan Sontag.
		Kiš's Garden, Ashes is a minor masterpiece à la Schulz, of mad fathers and madder undertakings which defy sense and logic but which are introverted and parabolic metaphors of the intricate mechanism of consciousness and yes, of that other trick - existence.
		Like Rembrandt, Kiš was able to reveal the latent beauty of the ordinary by the miracle of artistic transubstantiation so that a mere kitchen artefact becomes an enchantment of the spirit.
	www.paul-hyde-author.com /kis.html (520 words)

	Danilo I - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		DANILO I [Danilo I] (Danilo Petrović-Njegoš), 1670?-1735, last elected prince-bishop (vladika) of Montenegro (1696-1735) and founder of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty.
		After coordinating defense operations and settling, at least partially, tribal (family) disputes among his people, Danilo launched a struggle against the Ottomans in 1711.
		In 1715, Danilo visited Czar Peter I at St. Petersburg and secured his alliance against the Ottomans—a journey that became traditional among his successors.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-danilo1.html (296 words)

	A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Ki
		A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Ki
		One story, a classical mirror of the title piece (which Kiš claims he chanced upon after writing "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich"), is the one story from a different era (the 14th century), yet it fits in with the scheme of things -- and shows the near-universality of Kiš's concerns across time.
		Kiš's small portraits are almost delicately wrought: significant scenes carefully described, lives reduced to a few deeds or chance occurrences.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/kisd/tombbd.htm (687 words)

	CONTEXT: Aleksander Hemon Reading Danilo Kis
		Kis is never afraid to go from a small detail to an even smaller detail--from the "grapes" to their tiny shadows.
		Kis is never afraid to direct the reader's attention toward the writers he is in dialogue with.
		Kis claimed that A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, a book about the Apocalypse of Stalinist purges, was a response to Borges's "Universal History of Infamy"--Kis wanted to show that the real universal infamy was the history that devours its children, indeed, the millions of them caught up in it at any given time.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no9/hemon.html (1441 words)

	La fiction de l'Histoire dans Un tombeau pour Boris Davidovitch de Danilo Kis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Toutefois, Danilo Kis précise dans l'incipit que son récit, bien que reposant sur des documents, est un récit "né dans le doute et l'incertitude".
		Kis développe à l'extrême ce paradoxe - l'écriture a but, pour lui, de représenter la réalité en reconstruisant des périodes du passé, des vies de personnages historique, tout ceci en s'appuyant sur des documents donnant ainsi un cadre attesté à son récit.
		Kis combat les falsifications de l'Histoire ou les stratagèmes policiers par leurs propres moyens - en les poussant à leur extrême jusqu'à les renverser en leur contraire.
	www.fabula.org.cob-web.org:8888 /effet/interventions/18.php (3393 words)

	Amazon.com: Hourglass (European Classics): Books: Danilo Kis,Ralph Manheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Danilo Kis's Hourglass fulfills what the historian Hayden White described as the most proximate capture of the historical event of the Holocaust, the narrative art of literature.
		Kis recreates the life of a Hungarian Jew whose life is interrupted by his arrest and detention, but which has begun to unravel because of the limited trust that pervades what had been his normal milieu in a Hungary of assimilated Jews.
		It is not to fault Kis for doing well what he does here, but these portions lack the excitement of the interrogative modes, and by comparison languish on the page in their comparative introspection and wandering reveries.
	www.amazon.com /Hourglass-European-Classics-Danilo-Kis/dp/0810115131 (2677 words)

	Ursula Hien, Hamburg
		Kis, a Yugoslavian born in the same year as Fichte with an Orthodox Christian mother and a Jewish father, survived because he was also baptized as a Christian and was able to flee.
		Furthermore – and this shift from the level of the literary figures to that of their creators is perhaps problematic, because it takes place uncommented – Hetzer points out the role which irony plays for Danilo Kis as a writer, as an element of style in connection with the process of memory.
		And in Danilo Kis’ novel, Andi’s father Eduard Sam is nearly lynched by the fascist village youths.
	www.traumaresearch.net /review1/hien.htm (1782 words)

	Danilo Kis Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Danilo Kis is the most important writer to emerge in Serbia and Yugoslavia since the 1960s.
		After Ivo Andric and Milos Crnjanski, Kis can be regarded as the most important Serbian writer of the twentieth century within the modernist and postmodernist orientation.
		Danilo Kis was born on 22 February 1935 in the town of Subotica, a Serbian province of Vojvodina, near the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/danilo-kis-dlb (191 words)

	A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kis) - book review
		In seven short stories about revolutionaries, Danilo Kis explores the dark and terrible underbelly of the Revolution, its betrayals and deceits and its destruction of its own.
		Kis' stories have something of the feel of biographies, with references to real or imaginary sources (or the absence thereof), and everything in them is based on historical figures and events.
		Kis stays at a distance from his characters, using irony, Borgesian indirection, and whimsy; this detachment is necessary to stop his stories being too bleak and terrible to be bearable.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Boris_Davidovich.html (429 words)

	Amazon.fr : Hourglass: Livres en anglais: Danilo Kis,Ralph Manheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Particularly fascinating in this difficult and demanding novel, regarded by many as the late author's finest, is Kis's agile re-creation of the multi-ethnic culture of the border territory between Hungary and Yugoslavia.
		But Kis uses this "life" of a victim as a counterpoint to his second story line, which matter of factly reveals an exploding, horrific world in which Jews are murdered in countless mundane or outlandish ways, commit suicide, or simply disappear while the general population goes mad.
		The novel is fleshed out by a series of questions and answers elicited by an ominous, unseen person who interrogates E.S. A final "letter" reveals that the preceding text is a manuscript, written by E.S., meant to be "a bourgeois horror story," a telling summation of this ultimately rewarding novel.
	www.amazon.fr /Hourglass-Danilo-Kis/dp/0810115131 (439 words)

	Garden, Ashes - Danilo Ki
		The power of the novel is in its understatement, the threats ominous but seen through the eyes of the child who doesn't yet understand fully.
		He describes this as the "muddy tale of my father, woven together from one unreality after another." It is particularly convincing as a childhood recollection, the fathers quirks amplified by the dream-like pieced-together memories.
		Danilo Kiš (1935-1989) was a leading writer in the former Yugoslavia.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/kisd/garden.htm (538 words)

	Garden, Ashes (Danilo Kis) - book review
		Told from the perspective of Andi Scham, a young child in Hungary during the Second World War, Garden, Ashes is largely autobiographical — Danilo Kis' own father was a Hungarian Jew who died in Auschwitz in 1944.
		Kis' prose is richly detailed — with extended descriptions of ordinary items such as a tray or a sewing machine used to good effect — and the English translation is often close to poetry.
		- Danilo Kis - A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
	dannyreviews.com /h/Garden_Ashes.html (456 words)

	Early Sorrows: A Savoy Book Review
		Early Sorrows by Serbian author Danilo Kis brought the Milosz experience to mind because this short story collection too has moments of stunning transcendence, expected of literature, but actually rare.
		Moreover Kis, like Milosz, was born and lived in a country (the former Yugoslavia) where the roads of war crossed.
		By such indirection, Kis realizes wholly the violence of the crowd against their unnamed victims, who today could easily be another ethnic group in Bosnia.
	charlied.freeshell.org /kis/brev0014.htm (556 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Danilo Kis
		Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly "true" stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time.
		One of Serbia's most influential writers, Danilo Kis is the author of several novels and short-story collections, including A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, The Encyclopedia of the Dead, and Hourglass.
		In 1980 Kis was awarded the Grand Aigle d'Or from the city of Nice.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/kis.html (546 words)

	About Danilo Kis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Danilo Kis (1935-1989) was born in Subotica (in the north of Vojvodina), Yugoslavia.
		His mother was Montenegrin and his father Jewish (though with a Hungarian last name), so Kis is often described as a Serbian writer.
		After World War II, in which his father and several other family members died in the camps, he lived in Hungary and then Montenegro and studied literature at the university in Belgrade.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/sforres1/syllabi/15R/kis.html (477 words)

	Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of the Dead (European Classics): Books: Danilo Kis,Michael Henry Heim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Eastern European Literature Series) by Danilo Kis
		Garden, Ashes: A Novel (Eastern European Literature Series) by Danilo Kis
		I highly recommend all of Danilo Kis's works.
	amazon.com /Encyclopedia-Dead-European-Classics-Danilo/dp/081011514X (1126 words)

	Danilo Kis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The publication of his politically controversial novel Grobnica za Borisa Davidovica (1976; translated as A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, 1978) and the resulting scandal in Serbian and Yugoslav public life left a permanent mark on the literary establishment and decisively influenced younger authors who began writing in the mid 1970s.
		The work of Kis has also gained recognition outside of Yugoslavia, making him one of the most important writers of East-Central Europe alongside Milan Kundera, Gyorgy Konrad, and Czeslaw Milosz.
		Kis was born on 22 February 1935 in the town of Subotica, a Serbian province of Vojvodina, near the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/danilo-kis (189 words)

	wortlaut: "Anatomiestunde" von Danilo Kis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Das Erscheinen von Danilo Kišs Ein Grabmal für Boris Dawidowitsch löste 1976 in Belgrad eine Kontroverse aus, die bis in die 80er Jahre aktuell blieb.
		Kišs Gegner sprachen viel von dessen unmoralischen Schreibverfahren, die Leser zu narren, ihnen benutzte Quellen zu verheimlichen, zu imitieren, abzuschreiben und somit die Originalität der Nationalliteratur zu gefährden.
		Kiš verweigert sich nicht nur durch seine literarischen Themen, einer nationalen Literatur zugeschrieben zu werden.
	www.hainholz.de.cob-web.org:8888 /wortlaut/kis.htm (1637 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Danilo Kis
		I met Danilo Kis for the first time at his Paris apartment on the day of our interview--a cool, overcast afternoon in May 1984.
		Kis hadn't been part of my original business in France.
		Danilo Kis: First of all, Chagrins precoces, Garden, Ashes, and Hourglass comprise an ensemble that you could call "novels of apprenticeship"--literary apprenticeship.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_kis.html (3717 words)

	Danilo Kis Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		A collection of short stories in which Kis recalls his early life in a Yugoslavian village.
		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.
		In these stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes -- the multitude of details that make up a human life.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Danilo_Kis (257 words)

	Amazon.com: Homo Poeticus: Essays and Interviews: Books: Danilo Kis,Susan Sontag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kis was a brilliant writer, but as these essays show, completely apolitical.
		Considering that she claims to be a friend of Kis and actually put this work together, it is shameful that Sontag insists on putting a political spin on this collection.
		Collection of Danilo Kis' essays and interviews made me even more fond of him as a person - and his work.
	www.amazon.com /Homo-Poeticus-Interviews-Danilo-Kis/dp/0374257914 (941 words)

	Conspiracy theories and literary ethics: Umberto Eco, Danilo Kis and The Protocols of Zion Comparative Literature - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conspiracy theories and literary ethics: Umberto Eco, Danilo Kis and The Protocols of Zion
		At the end of the twentieth century the Protocols have surfaced again from the subterranean levels of international popular culture and enjoy new popularity in post-Soviet Russia, Japan and the United States.
		Since the Protocols themselves were a misread work of fiction, returning them to the realm of literature will help to disclose some of their seductive and persuasive tactics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_199904/ai_n8843471 (866 words)

	Amazon.ca: Homo Poeticus: Books: Danilo Kis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dans cet ensemble d'essais, Danilo Kis aborde de façon vivante certains thèmes qu'il prisait particulièrement : l'essence de la littérature, la poétique et l'éthique de l'écriture, le métier littéraire dans le sens le plus étroit du terme.
		Comme toujours chez Danilo Kis, le style est brillant, alerte, l'érudition alliée aux expériences personnelles, et l'on reconnaît partout la fascination de l'écrivain pour la beauté, ainsi que son implacable rigueur envers la bêtise et les lieux communs.
		Dans le contexte de la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie et de la montée des nationalismes, certains textes qui font plus directement allusion à l'expérience personnelle de Kis et au milieu culturel dans lequel il a écrit prennent un étonnant caractère d'actualité, offrant des éléments d'analyse et d'explication de cette tragédie de notre temps.
	www.amazon.ca /Homo-Poeticus-Danilo-Kis/dp/0374529442 (275 words)

	HOURGLASS - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		The novel describes in rich, Kafkaesque terms the external and internal worlds of a railway clerk called ES whose quotidian concerns include antagonism toward his well-to-do sister Netty, quarrels with her son George about a piece of jointly owned property and futile, indignant inquiries to the authorities about why his pension has been reduced.
		But Kis uses this life of a victim as a counterpoint to his second storyline, which matter-of-factly reveals an exploding, horrific world in which Jews are murdered in countless mundane or outlandish ways, commit suicide or simply disappear while the general population goes mad.
		The complex formal structure is realized with the utmost fluidity, precision and grace that characterize Danilo Kis's entire oeuvre.
	www.modernrare.com /books/371 (275 words)

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