Homo poeticus
essays and interviews
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Author
Contributions
- Sontag, Susan, 1933- - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
70,750 words, Guess
Page Count
283 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1107245M
- ISBN-100374257914
- OCLC Control Number31075113
- Library of Congress Control Number94032499
- Goodreads1343475
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- LibraryThing115397
Classifications
- DDC891.8/245
- LCCPG1419.21.I8 H66 1995
Description
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. With this posthumous selection from his non-fiction made by Susan Sontag, who was a friend of Kis, the English-language reader will be able to admire an equally original, more polemical aspect of Kis's genius. Here is Kis on nationalism as kitsch and collective paranoia, on the dilemmas of a Central European identity, on the dangers of censorship, on literature's struggle against banality, as well as on writers as different as Nabokov and Sade.
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