Danilo Kis, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-013266-3
These musings on the themes of death, literature and love include a surreal tale about a religious sect that meticulously records the lives of the dead in preparation for Judgement Day. ``Kis attempts to dazzle with his showmanship as he restlessly...
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Danilo Kis, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $39.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-374-17287-9
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. Set in 1942, the novel...
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Danilo Kis, Author, Michael Heim, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1390-5
Never before translated into English, this collection of interconnected stories, originally published in Belgrade in 1969, form the poignant, lightly fictionalized account of the acclaimed late novelist's boyhood in Yugoslavia. With a remarkable...
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Danilo Kis, Author, Michael H. Heim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-374-14826-3
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. The result is erratic. Some of these short narrativeswhich take death, literature...
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Danilo Kis, trans. from the Serbian by John K. Cox, preface by Aleksandar Hemon. Dalkey Archive, $16.95 trade paper (158p) ISBN 978-1-56478-762-0
Written when the author was 25 and receiving its first English translation now, this novel has the feeling of an apprentice work by a writer of great promise. Though Jakob and Marija are inmates in a concentration camp during WWII, Jakob’s medical...
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Danilo Kis, trans. from the Serbian and with an afterword by John K. Cox, preface by Adam Thirlwell. Dalkey Archive, $13.95 trade paper (156p) ISBN 978-1-56478-735-4
Conversely, this vigorously inventive story collection, transcribed from manuscripts after Kis’s death, clearly shows that promise fulfilled. In “The Stateless One,” a man spends his last years living in hotels and writing in cafes and finds that “la
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