Research Catalog

Title

Homo poeticus : essays and interviews / Danilo Kiš ; edited and with an introduction by Susan Sontag.

Author

Kiš, Danilo, 1935-1989.

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Description

xvi, 283 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• 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.

Subjects

• Authors, Serbian > 20th century > Interviews
• Kiš, Danilo, 1935-1989 > Translations into English
• Kiš, Danilo, 1935-1989 > Interviews

Note

• "Translators and interviewers" (p. [281]-283).

Contents

Introduction / Susan Sontag -- Birth Certificate (A Short Autobiography) -- From The Anatomy Lesson. Introduction to The Anatomy Lesson. The Gingerbread Heart, or Nationalism. Judaism. Borges. Individuality. Schizopsychology -- Essays. Homo Poeticus, Regardless. Why Velickovic's Runners Have No Heads. Censorship/Self-Censorship. Variations on Central European Themes. The Mediterranean and the Golden Fleece. Advice to a Young Writer. On the Marquis de Sade. Two Variations on Flaubert. Karlo Stajner, Witness for the Prosecution. Nabokov, or Nostalgia -- Interviews. All the Genes of My Reading. Banality, Like a Plastic Bottle, Is Forever. Seeking a Place under the Sun for Doubt. Naming Is Creating. The Conscience of an Unknown Europe. Life, Literature. Ironic Lyricism. Baroque and Truth. I Don't Believe in a Writer's Fantasy.

ISBN

0374257914 :

LCCN

94032499

OCLC

• 31075113
• ocm31075113

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries