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Homo poeticus : essays and interviews /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiš, Danilo, 1935-1989
Other Authors: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995.
Subjects:
Kiš, Danilo, > 1935-1989 > Translations into English.
Kiš, Danilo, > 1935-1989 > Interviews.
Authors, Serbian > 20th century > Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • Birth certificate (a short autobiography)
  • From The anatomy lesson : Introduction to the anatomy lesson
  • The gingerbread heart, or nationalism
  • Judaism
  • Borges
  • Individuality
  • Schizopsychology
  • Essays : Homo poeticus, regardless
  • Why Velic̆ković's runners have no heads
  • Censorship/self-censorship
  • Variations on Central European themes
  • The Mediterranean and the golden fleece
  • Advice to a young writer
  • On the Marquis de Sade
  • Two variations on Flaubert
  • Karlo S̆tajner, witness for the prosecution
  • Nabokov, or nostalgia
  • Interviews : All the genes of my reading
  • Banality, like a plastic bottle, is forever
  • Seeking a place under the sun for doubt
  • Naming is creating
  • The conscience of an unknown Europe
  • Life, literature
  • Ironic lyricism
  • Baroque and truth
  • I don't believe in a writer's fantasy.