Danilo Kis is the most important writer to emerge in Serbia and Yugoslavia since the 1960s. After Ivo Andric and Milos Crnjanski, Kis can be regarded as the most important Serbian writer of the twentieth century within the modernist and postmodernist...

The Yugoslavian writer Danilo Kis and the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges share a remarkably similar vision and narrative style. Kis' 'a Tomb for Boris Davidovich' and 'The Encyclopedia of the Dead' recall Borges works such as 'A Universal History of Infamy.' However, Kis...

Danilo Kis believes that technique is a major component of his writing and dreads the prospect of repeating himself technically. One reason for the gap between his works is his need to find and master a new technique after each one. Kis has come...