Summary
Danilo Kiš: Luta and Scars
The book Luta and Scars brings Kiš's stories from his legacy, most of which were created at a similar or the same time as the stories from the book Encyclopaedia of the Dead.
To that extent, it can be said that the stories from the book Luta and Scars represent the last turning of the screw in the unsurpassed creative workshop of Danilo Kiš. These stories embody one of the possible outcomes of that great adventure. Confronting life and story, facts and fiction, the language of documents and the power of imagination, Danilo Kish in his latest stories talks about Eden Von Horvat and the fate of Central Europe, about stateless people and graves, about Jura Golec, about love and death, about Belgrade, about Andrić, about debts and a world that always has two disconnected sides. The stories from Kish's legacy: "Stateless", "Jurij Golec", "Lute and Scars", "Marathon and the Judge", "Poet" and "Debt", were written between 1980 and 1986, either with the intention of being included in the book Encyclopedia of the Dead, or as an echo of it. We added to them the short two-part prose "A and B", which had no title in the manuscript. Although it does not belong to the narrative genre, it functions as a metaphor in relation to the majority of Kiš's prose work: hence its place in this book, and at the end, "as a kind of lyrical epilogue".
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