
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their …

The Encyclopedia of the Dead is a collection of nine stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš. Combining history and fiction in what critics have seen as a postmodern fashion, the stories have helped cement Kiš's legacy as one of the most important 20th-century Yugoslav authors.

Early Sorrows: For Children and Sensitive Readers is a collection of eighteen short stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš written in 1970. The book is second in what Kiš called a "family cycle"; the first in that cycle was the novel Garden, Ashes, and the last the novel Hourglass.

Mansarda is the first novel published by the renowned Serbian author Danilo Kis (1935-1989). Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, Mandarda explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks the personal relationship among a colorful …