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Kiš belongs to Serbian literature and the wider multilingual Yugoslav tradition. His short forms combine a documentary surface with questions of memory and political violence. Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars invites nonlinear reading, while Živković’s The Library makes reading a fantastic adventure. Basara offers conspiratorial grotesque, and Albahari examines memory in exile. Alongside these experiments, Kiš’s Garden, Ashes approaches catastrophe through childhood.
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Seven stories examine political terror, coerced testimony and the destruction of the individual.
Original title: Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča
Dalkey Archive Press · 2001
Translated by Duška Mikić-Mitchell
Edition source ↗Czarne
Edition source ↗A child’s perspective recalls a family world gradually engulfed by war and persecution.
Original title: Bašta, pepeo
A dictionary-novel juxtaposes conflicting Christian, Muslim and Jewish accounts of the Khazars.
Original title: Hazarski rečnik
A meeting in exile triggers a dispute about storytelling and responsibility for the past.
Original title: Svetski putnik
Fictional documents and the secrets of a cyclists’ brotherhood create a grotesque alternative world history.
Original title: Fama o biciklistima
Fantastic tales imagine libraries preserving future books, souls or every possible volume.
Original title: Biblioteka
Nine stories weave history and fiction while examining memory, death and the value of an individual life.
A teacher investigating his family’s destruction becomes obsessed with two drivers of a Nazi gas van.
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