The Prose Fiction of Danilo Kiš, Serbian Jewish Writer: Childhood and the HolocaustAnalyzes three pseudo-autobiographical novels by Kiš (1935-1989), constituting his "family cycle": "Garden, Ashes" (1965), "Early Sorrows" (1969), and "Hourglass" (1972). Kiš was born to a Hungarian Jewish father and a Montenegrin mother. The war caught his family in Novi Sad, in the Hungarian-annexed part of Vojvodina, where his father Eduard Kiš narrowly escaped being killed (by the Hungarians) during a massacre of Jews and Serbs in January 1942. His family fled to Hungary, where they lived as destitute refugees until Eduard was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The three books are based on the experiences of Danilo Kiš and his family during the war. The books are three attempts, varying in genre, to come to terms with the painful experiences of Kiš's childhood and the disappearance of his father in the Holocaust. |
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A Conception of the Novel | 1 |
The Question of Genre | 31 |
Narrative Voices | 57 |
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