The Encyclopedia of the Dead / Danilo Kiš

By:

Kiš, Danilo, 1935–1989

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: sh Publication details: London Penguin 2015Edition: Penguin ClassicsISBN:

9780141396989

Genre/Form:

Short Stories

Summary: Danilo Kiš is one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. This collection of short fiction delves into uncanny characters, magical places, and millennia of history. From the story of a counter-prophet, Simon Magus, who performs a blasphemous miracle in ancient Samaria, to 'Red Stamps with Lenin's Head', revealing the heart-broken secret of a poet's word, to 'The Encyclopedia of the Dead', an almighty catalogue of the life of every ordinary person to have died since 1789, these are tales brimming with imagination, horror, comedy, and the sublime.Translation of: Enciklopewdija mrtvih

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Danilo Kiš is one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. This collection of short fiction delves into uncanny characters, magical places, and millennia of history. From the story of a counter-prophet, Simon Magus, who performs a blasphemous miracle in ancient Samaria, to 'Red Stamps with Lenin's Head', revealing the heart-broken secret of a poet's word, to 'The Encyclopedia of the Dead', an almighty catalogue of the life of every ordinary person to have died since 1789, these are tales brimming with imagination, horror, comedy, and the sublime.

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