Garden, Ashes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Danilo Kiš
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and early 1940’s
- Setting: Northern Yugoslavia
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Education or educators, 1940’s, 1930’s, Fathers, Anti-Semitism, Fate or fatalism, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: Yugoslavia
Characters Discussed
Eduard “Sam” Scham, a railway official, poet, and world traveler. The character of Eduard is seen through the eyes of his son, Andi; the perceptions are necessarily subjective and biased. What comes through is a portrait of an eccentric, an incorrigible dreamer, and a man of many talents. He is a poet and a philosopher whose abilities are unfulfilled and squandered, partly because of his circumstances and his Jewish background, but partly because of his several character flaws. A railroad inspector, he is drawn to his profession by an insatiable urge to...
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