Hourglass (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Danilo Kiš
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1942
- Setting: Yugoslavia
- Principal Characters: E. S. (Edward Scham)
- Genres: Long fiction, New Novel
- Subjects: Suicide, World War II, Mental illness, Victims, Violence, Jews or Jewish life, Letter writing, Miracles, Holocaust, Jewish, Railroads, Retirement, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Naturalism, Lamps, Oils or fats
- Locales: Yugoslavia
Perhaps Yugoslavia’s finest twentieth century writer, Danilo Kiš is little known in American literary circles. Born in Subotica, on Yugoslavia’s border with Hungary, he was the son of a Jewish father and an Orthodox Christian mother. She was obliged to sew a yellow star for her young son by the Nazi authorities who governed the country during World War II. Kiš had his first novel, Mansarda (attic), published in 1962. He produced a steady stream of poems, plays, essays, and short stories as well as long fiction. In 1984, his collected works were issued in ten volumes in...
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