num_pages: 201
description: Yugoslav author Danilo Kis is one of the best-known fiction writers of central and southeastern Europe. This study examines Kis's prose as a textual exploration of different modes of self-constitution, executed in order to construct a personal history and a self-portrait. It examines Kis's `family cycle' (the novels Early Sorrows; Garden, Ashes; and Hourglass) as a performative act in which a textual inscription of the self mimics the gradual unfolding and constitution of the subject through the three different orders described in Lacan's writings as Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real. Another chapter analyzes the documentary film Bare Existence (directed by Aleksandar Mandic) for which Kis co-wrote the script and in which he appears as the interviewer of two women.
language: English
title: The Prose Fiction of Danilo Kis, Serbian Jewish Writer: Childhood and the Holocaust
titlecomplete: The Prose Fiction of Danilo Kis, Serbian Jewish Writer: Childhood and the Holocaust (Studies in Slavic Language & Literature)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr