Title: Homo poeticus
Subtitle: essays and interviews
First published: 1983
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.
Subjects: Interviews, History and criticism, Poetry, Serbian Authors, Translations into English, Criticism, Literature, Modern Literature, Translations into German, Authors, biography
Places: Yugoslavia
People: Danilo Kiš (1935-1989), Danilo Kiš (1935-)
Time periods: 20th century