Summary
Danilo Kiš: The Last Refuge of Sanity
The selected essays by Danilo Kiš cover the time span from his early texts to texts from his literary legacy.
The Last Refuge of Sanity brings a representative selection of texts from Kiš's books from Poetics and Homo Poeticus to the books Life, Literature, Warehouse and Varia.
Presenting the highlights of Kiš's essays, The book The Last Refuge of Sanity shows the extraordinary strength of Kiš's essay writing, in which this writer asks the basic questions of the literature of his time: from the meaning and role of literature, through the question of its credibility, to the question of shaping the fundamental questions of concrete human time in a literary text.
A book in which Kiš answers the question: "Why do I write?" and in which Kiš says what are the two key questions on which all writers of the 20th century take the exam.
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