Enciclopedia De Los Muertos by Danilo Kiš
A linked collection of short, elegiac stories that reads like an imaginary archive, where miniature biographies and fictional encyclopedia entries excavate ordinary lives erased or distorted by history. With precise, lyrical prose the book explores memory, mortality and the ethical burden of recording human lives, showing how documents and small details can both illuminate and falsify the past and how the act of cataloguing becomes a way to mourn, preserve and exert power over vanished people.
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- Published
- 1983
- Nationality
- Yugoslav
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- Serbo-croatian
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- Enciclopedia de los muertos
- Enciklopedija mrtvih
- The Encyclopedia of the Dead
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