“The man who ate death. 1793" by Borislav Pekić (1930–1992). Translation by literary critic and journalist Vasily Sokolov, his own is a short sketch of the life and work of the Serbian author. This is a story from the times of the French Revolution and the Terror. A minor employee of the Palace of Justice, whose duties included writing out a “direction” for guillotining, first by mistake, and then deliberately began to eat one sentence a day...