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Un jeune homme retrouve son ancienne institutrice avec laquelle il se met à évoquer leurs souvenirs communs, découvrant, en un raccourci vertigineux, tout un pan de l'histoire de l'Europe centrale pendant la période cruciale de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Au lendemain des événements de juin 1968 en Yougoslavie, un jeune homme bavard, sensible, loufoque, s'introduit dans l'appartement d'une " bourgeoise rouge ", raide et conventionnelle qui, le premier moment de frayeur passé, n'hésitera pas à " faire feu de toutes ses armes ".

Un vieil asthmatique, ancien déporté, soutient matériellement et moralement un jeune homme dont toute la famille a disparu dans les camps et qui essaie d'écrire " un livre sur la souffrance " sans y parvenir.

La vie (mythique?) du révolutionnaire soviétique Boris Davidovitch Novski est déroulée en dix-neuf tableaux et un épilogue, événements familiaux et réminiscences de la Russie tsariste alternant avec des épisodes liés à l'univers concentrationnaire et à la terreur stalinienne.

Quatre pièces au style concis, mêlant ironie et poésie, où l'on retrouve les grandes préoccupations de Danilo Kis : réflexion sur la mémoire, sur la création littéraire, sur le destin de l'individu dans la machine meurtrière engendrée par l'oppression totalitaire.

Danilo Kis (1935-1989), écrivain yougoslave, a passé les dix dernières années de sa vie à Paris. Styliste remarquable, il aborde dans son oeuvre, tantôt par le biais de l'autobiographie, tantôt dans ses récits de " fiction document ", les grands thèmes de ce siècle, en particulier l'oppression totalitaire, tant dans le nazisme que dans le communisme. Il a reçu en 1980 le Grand Aigle d'Or de la ville de Nice. Parmi ses oeuvres, Un tombeau pour Boris Davidovitch; Sablier; Jardin, cendre; Chagrins précoces; Encyclopédie des morts; la Mansarde; Homo poeticus; la Leçon d'anatomie; le Luth et les cicatrices; le Résidu amer de l'expérience.

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First published January 1, 1983

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Danilo Kiš

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Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Kiš (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Kiš (born Dragićević) from Cetinje, Montenegro. During the Second World War, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954.

Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960. In 1962 he published his first two novels, Mansarda and Psalam 44. Kiš received the prestigious NIN Award for his Peščanik ("Hourglass") in 1973, which he returned a few years later, due to a political dispute.

During the following years, Kiš received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry.

He spent most of his life in Paris and working as a lecturer elsewhere in France.

Kiš was married to Mirjana Miočinović from 1962 to 1981. After their separation, he lived with Pascale Delpech until his early death from lung cancer in Paris.

A film based on Peščanik (Fövenyóra) directed by the Hungarian Szabolcs Tolnai is currently in post-production.

Kiš was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was due to win it, were it not for his untimely death in 1989.

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Iako je prošlo 7 godina, odmah sam prepoznala odlomak koji smo obrađivali na času srpskog i koji me je još onda naveo da dodam ovu dramu na svoju to read listu.
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