- Fiction, short stories (single author), Translations into English
Written between 1980 and 1986, the stories in The Lute and the Scars were transcribed from the manuscripts left by Danilo Kis following his death in 1989. Many are autobiographical. Others resurrect protagonists belonging to Kis's fellow Central European novelists.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Danilo Kiš
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 137
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781564787354
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