BIRTH CERTIFICATE: THE STORY OF DANILO KIS
Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B61589
English Summary/英文概要： Danilo Kis (1935–89) was a Yugoslav novelist, essayist, poet, and translator whose work generated storms of controversy in his homeland but today holds classic status. Kis was championed by prominent literary figures around the world, including Joseph Brodsky, Susan Sontag, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie. As more of his works become available in translation, they are prized by an international readership drawn to Kis’s innovative brilliance as a storyteller and to his profound meditation on history, culture, and the human condition at the end of the twentieth century.
A subtle analysis of a rich and varied body of writing, Birth Certificate is also a careful and sensitive telling of a life that experienced some of the last century’s greatest cruelties. Kis’s father was a Hungarian Jew, his mother a Montenegrin of Orthodox faith. The father disappeared into the Holocaust and the son—cosmopolitan, anticommunist, and passionately opposed to the myth-drenched nationalisms of his native lands—grew up chafing against the hypocrisies of Titoism. His writing broke with the epic mode, pioneered modernist techniques in his language, fulminated against literary kitsch, and sketched out a literary heritage "with no Sun as its Center and Tyrant." Joyce and Borges were influences on his writing, which nevertheless is stunningly original. The best known of his works are Garden, Ashes; The Encyclopedia of the Dead; Hourglass; The Anatomy Lesson; and A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
Over the course of nearly two decades, Mark Thompson studied Kis’s papers and interviewed his family members, friends, and admirers. His intimate understanding of the writer’s life and his sure grasp of the region’s history inform his revelatory readings of Kis’s individual works.More than an appreciation of an important literary and cultural figure, this book is also a compelling guide to the destructive policies which would, shortly after Kis’s death, generate the worst violence in Europe since World War II. Thompson’s book pays tribute to Kis’s experimentalism by being itself experimental in form. It is patterned as a series of commentaries on a short autobiographical text that Kis called "Birth Certificate." This unusual structure adds to the interest and intrigue of the book, and is appropriate for treating so autobiographical a writer who believed that literary meaning is always deeply shaped by other texts.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 入围全美国传记类图书评委协会奖
丹尼洛•契斯（Danilo Kis,1935~1989）
塞尔维亚人，独具一格的国民作家。生于南斯拉夫的苏伯提卡——靠近匈牙利边境，该地由于政治地位敏感，而笼罩着战争与死亡的阴影。契斯自幼体验到战争的恐怖，双亲也是集中营的牺牲者，这些难以忘却的记忆，纷纷体现在了他的著作中，并受到国际瞩目。
细致入微地分析，丰富详尽的抒写，本书还娓娓道出上个世纪最为惨绝人寰的历史印记。契斯的父亲曾是一名匈牙利犹太人，母亲是一位黑山东正教徒。父亲在当时大屠杀中失踪，而四海漂泊的儿子，一生便折返于铁托主义虚伪的民族独立的汹涌高涨的幻象中。他的作品打破了史诗叙事的模式，在他的语言中开创了前无古人的先河，强烈谴责文学的媚俗刻奇，这并不是他唯一的独立创新。契斯最为著作《花园，灰烬》、《死亡百科全书》、《沙漏》、《上解剖课》和《达维多维奇之墓》。
在历经了近二十年的时间里，马克•汤普森研究契斯的作品，并采访了他的家庭成员、朋友和仰慕者。更为走进这位作家的生活，从他的个人著作中了解东欧文学的历史。这是一位超越了文学和文化的重要人物，本书也是自契斯死后不久，细述欧洲自二战以来所遭受的严重暴力侵袭的一部令人信服的指南。汤普森的这本传记也是对契斯通过形式本身来进行实验主义的一种敬意。这也是一部契斯称之为"出生证书"的一个系列短篇自传文体。不同寻常的结构增添了本书和趣味性，疗以慰藉，因此自传作家坚信文学的意义总是能深受其他文学载体的影响。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Mark Thompson is the author of A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia, Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919. He lives in Oxford.
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