"Kis is one of the major writers of the second half of the century. . . . Kis preserves the honor of literature." --Susan Sontag 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 w...(展开全部)

"Kis is one of the major writers of the second half of the century. . . . Kis preserves the honor of literature." --Susan Sontag 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 w...(展开全部)

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989）二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，二战期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有 《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项，并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989）二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，二战期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有 《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项，并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989）二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，二战期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有 《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项，并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。

丹尼洛·契斯（Danilo Kiš，1935—1989）二十世纪南斯拉夫最重要的作家。契斯出生于南斯拉夫的苏博蒂察市，二战期间，他的父亲在纳粹集中营遇害，母亲带着他和姐姐逃难到黑山，直到战争结束才回到南斯拉夫。他在贝尔格莱德大学比较文学系毕业后开始文学生涯，作品有 《花园，灰烬》《沙漏》《达维多维奇之墓》《死亡百科全书》等，曾获得塞尔维亚NIN 文学奖、美国布鲁诺·舒尔茨奖等诸多文学奖项，并被授予法国文学艺术骑士勋章。

The creator of radical and poetic work, Boris Mikhailov focuses his camera on people's everyday life, capturing both the social and historical conditions in the Soviet Union and the changes that occurred after 1989, with the breakdown of order in the Ukraine. In the 1970s, Mikhailov started to photograph "life the way it is." He dealt with the "city without a main street," the...(展开全部)

When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon so...(展开全部)

When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon so...(展开全部)

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a “magnificent” book, Ernst Robert Curtius establis...(展开全部)