The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš: Ł9.99, Penguin Classics -Danilo Kiš was a Serbian writer who lived through the worst of the 20th century. Born into a Jewish family, he survived the Holocaust and with the end of the war found himself living, studying and working in the capital of Tito’s newly consecrated communist republic, the federal Yugoslavia. In Belgrade he established his literary reputation, occasionally incurring the party’s displeasure for his fiction (for the story Simon Magus, included in this new collection, Kiš was disqualified from a literary competition on the grounds that he was slyly critiquing the politburo). In the brief but informative introduction to this new collection by Penguin, the translator Mark Thompson justly compares many of Kiš’s stories with those of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose awareness of history, fondness for short fiction and talent for writing meandering prose puzzles we find mirrored in Kiš. This new collection is an exquisite and appropriate tribute to one of Central Europe’s more neglected writers.
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