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Month: December 2012

Danilo Kis ~ The Lute and the Scars

May 7, 2014December 30, 2012

just finished reading, as part of my Danilo Kis binge, the last available set of short stories (written in the 80’s, prior to his death of lung cancer in Paris in 1989; we still are iceberg-tip as far as untranslated material goes), THE LUTE AND THE SCARS, all of which are coloured by the two …

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Danilo Kis ~ Garden, Ashes

May 7, 2014December 28, 2012

just finished reading, in the midst of an unplanned Danilo Kis binge, his novel, GARDEN, ASHES; narrated by the child of a Hungarian Jew father taken to the death camps, like Kis’ own father, this is a Holocaust novel that communicates the tragic enormity through the minutiae, the miniscule, the intimate cusp of memory and …

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Danilo Kis ~ The Attic

May 7, 2014December 26, 2012

just finished reading Serbian author Danilo Kis’s first novel, The Attic, an artist-as-young-Bohemian novel wherein we read and witness the writing of this surreal and poetic story, replete with Kis’s habitual cribbing (this time from Mann’s The Magic Mountain), obsessive lists, miniaturist and hallucinatory prose, antic humour and philosophy. it is easy to see the …

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Nikolai Groszni ~ Turtle Feet

May 7, 2014December 24, 2012

just finished reading Nikolai Grozni‘s memoir of his four years as a Buddhist monk, TURTLE FEET, as much a memoir as it is a philosophical novel in the grand tradition of Milan Kundera, but here with far better comic timing, and more hard-won truths. a beautiful book, and one which must be read, along with …

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Danilo Kis ~ A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

May 7, 2014December 18, 2012

just finished reading the shortest of the great 20th Century novels: A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH by the Yugoslav, Danilo Kis. William T. Vollmann’s essay of this novel as perhaps the single most formative and inspiring to his own work appeared in the volume i recently read, EXPELLED FROM EDEN: A WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN READER, …

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DBC Pierre ~ Ludmila’s Broken English

May 7, 2014December 17, 2012

just finished reading DBC Pierre’s romantic farce, LUDMILA’S BROKEN ENGLISH. worthy of DaPonte, a romp swirling together the lives of sundered British Siamese twins and the title-character’s family in a desolate hamlet in the Caucasus in war-torn present-day Russia, via an internet bride service. really funny, and a lot less at stake here than in …

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