About this title: Kis's first internationally prominent work, this 1976 group of connected stories is set in Russia in the midst of the Stalinist purges.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
Description: Brodsky, Joseph. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Croatian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Writers from the Other Europe. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages clean & unmarked. Good cover with light wear. Ships fast! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 135 p. Eastern European Studies (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
Description: Good. Publisher: Penguin Date of Publication: 1980 Binding: Trade Paperback Condition: Good, Wear to Edges, Cover Description: 0140054529 Some age yellowing to pages, no marks or writing inside. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1980
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7ž"-9ž" tall. A very good paperback copy, barely used. The spine is solid and square and free o reading creases. The cover shows almost no wear, just some very light rubbing of the edges. The text is clean and unmarked. ---------------------------------------- novel by an important Yugoslavian writer was selected by Philip Roth for this series of novels from the "Other Europe, " that is, Eastern Europe. There is an introduction by Joseph Brodsky. 135 pages. read more
Description: Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG white and green pictorial dj. 135 pages; The author was the son oif a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector. During World War II, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Ki graduated from high school in 1954. In this novel Kis seems to embody the ... read more
Description: Very Good. ź cloth cover has 1 tiny edge snub-dj is unclipped under mylar and fine-pages fine-lib distinctives mostly on front endpapers. read more
Edition: None Stated
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
Description: No Illustrations. Very Good. No Jacket. ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK COVER IS LIGHTLY FADED, LIGHT SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
"A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, by Danilo Kis, a Yugoslav writer, is a collection of seven loosely connected short stories or episodes, all dark, mostly about Communist figures (none specifically in Yugoslavia) of the first half of the 20th century, all of whom ultimately come to grief in various purges. It is a harsh book, unrelenting in its despair, reminding me of works by other authors - Kafka's various works, Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, among others. Like the work of Elie Wiesel, I think, it bears witness to events that must never be forgotten and as such is of importance, despite being difficult to read; the book is short but wrenching. It should be said that, from a purely literary perspective, Kis writes well and deserves more awareness on the part of non-European readers than I sense he has had."
"Dicho por Milan Kundera y suscrito en pleno por este lector: "Cincuenta años después de los horrores de la Historia (nazismo, estalinismo), oigo hablar por doquier del deber moral de no olvidar. ¿Pero, de qué memoria estamos hablando? ¿De aquella de procuradores y de jueces? ¿De aquella que transforma la historiografía en "criminografía"? ¿O de aquella otra memoria que conserva la esencia humana del pasado? ¿Aquella del arte, de las novelas, de la poesía? Pobre humanidad que quiere convertir a Eichmann en inmortal y está lista para olvidar a Danilo Kis"."
"Gripping, often harrowing portrait of six different lives caught up in the Communist Purges. Through rousing descriptions, perfect metaphors, and relentless pacing, Kis lays bare the horrors of Stalinism while memorializing the various agents, soldiers, and artists who paid for their defiance in blood."
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