Summary
Danilo Kiš: Mansarda
Danilo Kiš's first novel.
A book in which the main themes of Kiš's literature are contained and announced.
"Everything in Mansard is too poeticized, displaced, dislocated, but somewhere at the bottom of that book there is some bitter residue of experience. And that bitter residue remains and will remain in my later books, which, it seems to me, are nothing more than an attempt to search for my own personality, one's own self, the desire to find some original purity, sometimes in the world of childhood, sometimes in oneself."
Danilo Kiš (1972)
All this in Mansard is too poeticized, displaced, dislocated, but somewhere at the bottom of that book there is some bitter residue of experience. And that bitter sediment of experience remains and will remain in my later books, which, it seems to me, are nothing more than an attempt to search for one's own personality, one's own self, the desire to find some original purity, sometimes in the world of childhood, sometimes in myself.
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