Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Eur...

The complex composition and internal structure of the novel “Hourglass” can be compared to a sonata or a 6-movement fugue, where heterogeneous elements, at f...

In the novel “Garden, Ashes” (1965), the Serbian writer Danilo Kis (1935–1989), in his characteristic lyrical manner, describes the collision of the fragile ...

Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as “A and...

The Attic explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks his relationship with a colorful cast of ...

Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 s...