The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Kis Danilo
In the enclyclopaedia, housed in an icy, dungeon-like Swedish library, a bereaved daughter reads through the night the entry about her father, an ordinary Yugoslav. His whole life is set out - every fish caught, every plant picked, the text of every letter written.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140132663 |
| ISBN 10 | 014013266X |
| Title | The Encyclopedia of the Dead |
| Author | Kis Danilo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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