About this title: Kis's first internationally prominent work, this 1976 group of connected stories is set in Russia in the midst of the Stalinist purges.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, NY
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
Description: Good Plus. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Completely clean, tight text has light fading; covers have a corner crease, spine fading. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054521ISBN:0140054529
Description: Brodsky, Joseph. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Croatian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Writers from the Other Europe. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, by Danilo Kis, a Yugoslav writer, is a collection of seven loosely connected short stories or episodes, all dark, mostly about Communist figures (none specifically in Yugoslavia) of the first half of the 20th century, all of whom ultimately come to grief in various purges. It is a harsh book, unrelenting in its despair, reminding me of works by other authors - Kafka's various works, Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, among others. Like the work of Elie Wiesel, I think, it bears witness to events that must never be forgotten and as such is of importance, despite being difficult to read; the book is short but wrenching. It should be said that, from a purely literary perspective, Kis writes well and deserves more awareness on the part of non-European readers than I sense he has had."
"Dicho por Milan Kundera y suscrito en pleno por este lector: "Cincuenta años después de los horrores de la Historia (nazismo, estalinismo), oigo hablar por doquier del deber moral de no olvidar. ¿Pero, de qué memoria estamos hablando? ¿De aquella de procuradores y de jueces? ¿De aquella que transforma la historiografía en "criminografía"? ¿O de aquella otra memoria que conserva la esencia humana del pasado? ¿Aquella del arte, de las novelas, de la poesía? Pobre humanidad que quiere convertir a Eichmann en inmortal y está lista para olvidar a Danilo Kis"."
"Gripping, often harrowing portrait of six different lives caught up in the Communist Purges. Through rousing descriptions, perfect metaphors, and relentless pacing, Kis lays bare the horrors of Stalinism while memorializing the various agents, soldiers, and artists who paid for their defiance in blood."
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