About this title: Serbian Danilo Kis, like Orwell before him, is preoccupied with the dehumanizing of man in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His fiction - including "The Encyclopedia of the Dead" and "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich" - established him as one of the original writers of postwar Europe. His antecedents include Borges and Bruno Schultz, the cosmopolitian ...
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780374257910ISBN:0374257914
Description: VG+ in VG DJ; previous owner's name on ffep. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780374257910ISBN:0374257914
Description: ISBN: 0374257914; First Edition, First Printing; ex-library copy with the usual blemishes, else VERY GOOD hardcover in VERY GOOD, laminated dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: First Printing; Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780374257910ISBN:0374257914
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0374257914. Cover is cream with black spine with gold lettering on spine. Kis was born in 1935 in Subotica, on the Yugoslavian side of the border with Hungary. While known mostly for his fiction here the recently deceased Susan Sontag has edited a series of interviews and essays. Includes writing on nationalism as kitsch and collective paranoia; identity dilemmas; dangers of censorship; and so forth.; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; 283 pages; Cover has very slight edge wear. DJ ... read more
Description: Very Good. Very good condition. DJ has some creasing along the top edge and by the corners. Clean pages. Tight binding. Prompt shipping & FREE delivery confirmation. dw. read more
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