Homo poeticus
Subtitle: essays and interviews
By: Danilo Kiš ; edited, and with an introduction by Susan Sontag.
Contributors: Sontag, Susan, 1933-
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Kiš, Danilo, 1935-  -- Translations into English.; Kiš, Danilo, 1935-  -- Interviews.; Authors, Serbian -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.