#Danilo Kiš

[jacobwren]

“The writer's job is to acquaint everyone with the world so no one can claim innocence.” —Danilo Kiš

[professeur-stump]

(À cette époque, je n'imaginais pas du tout que j'écrirais un jour des histoires, mais j'eus cette pensée : « Mon Dieu, comme je suis impuissant devant ces fleurs! »)

(Danilo Kiš, Chagrins précoces)

[listenanddie]

RAŠTIMOVANI KLAVIR

avenijom crnih šuma prođe

jedna opatica

na biciklu

jedan se policajac krsti

pred katedralom

jedna katedrala od čipaka

jedna starica što nudi ljubav

za svega trideset franaka

plus soba

u jednoj radnji na uglu

prodaju tople pidžame

i žvakaće gume

za pse

jedan pijani mornar

u zagrljaju ulice

u jednoj se kafani toče

kakao i gorki likeri

jedan visoki kongoanac

što liči na kengura

umire javno

od nostalgije

oči jedne mlade konobarice

u kafani italija

podsećaju na oči modiljanijevih

žena

jedan se pijani nemac seća

poljkinje marije kazinske

koju je ljubio

1943

s jednom rukom

na pištolju

s drugom na levoj sisi

jedan me raštimovani

klavir

podseća na luku spasa

u parizu

gde sam plakao jedne večeri

gledajući jedan ljubavni par

kako se grli

Strazbur, dec. 1962.

Danilo Kiš

[radiogornjigrad]

ŽIVOTNO PUTOVANJE DANILA KIŠA

„U vitrinama logorskog muzeja bile su izložene tašne i novčanici od ljudske kože. Made in Germany. Uštavljena ljudska koža, kada se dobro isuši, naliči na pergament. A neispisani, bijeli list hartije, pogotovo pergamenta, draži ljudsku maštu, jer svaki je čovjek umjetnik i željan da ostavi traga na zemlji. Valjda je baš ta činjenica navela Ubermenscha da na sasvim anonimnoj i idealno bijeloj…

[cicero-defacto]

❛For The Encyclopedia of the Dead, history is the sum of human destinies, the totality of ephemeral happenings. That is why it records every action, every thought, every creative breath, every spot height in the survey, every shovelful of mud, every motion that cleared a brick from the ruins.❜ —The Encyclopedia of the Dead, Danilo Kiš.

[bosforski]

Danilo Kiš

[ilfascinodelvago]

Il nazionalismo è l’ideologia della banalità. È un’ideologia totalitaria. È anche kitsch. […] Ma, soprattutto, il nazionalismo è negazione, una categoria dello spirito che si alimenta del rifiuto. Non siamo come loro. Noi siamo il polo positivo; loro, quello negativo. I nostri valori nazionali e il nostro nazionalismo hanno senso solo in rapporto al nazionalismo degli altri. Sì, siamo nazionalisti, ma loro lo sono di più; tagliamo gole, se serve, ma loro sono sanguinari; siamo beoni, loro sono alcolisti. Il nazionalismo è un’ideologia reazionaria." 

Danilo Kiš -1978

[dylanlila]

1 for the ask game 🧡

OMG HIIII 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

read (listing authors hehe): VIRGINIA WOOLF, louisa may alcott, albert camus, arthur rimbaud, ivo andrić, samuel beckett, sylvia plath, franz kafka, meša selimović, danilo kiš

watch: DOCTOR WHO, house m.d., girl meets world, kako je propao rokenrol, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain, little women (2019), funny face, how to build a girl, i'm not there (2007), dead poets society, maratonci trče počasni krug, ko to tamo peva, šešir profesora koste vujića, dont look back (1967)

listen: I'M A MUSIC PERSON, I CAN'T ANSWER THIS... okay lots of bob dylan and ekatarina velika obviously, those are my number 1 artist and number 1 band, but also -> l. cohen, bruce springsteen, joni mitchell, haustor, idoli, električni orgazam, prince, INXS, talking heads etc etc etc and for less broad of an answer the current jo-core playlist:

or this tbh, this works too:

you know, if somebody asked me this, ultimately i'd just tell them to stalk my spotify before they can get to touching my records level

ask game

[iirulancorrino]

2 & 22 for the end of year book meme!

2. Did you reread anything? And what?

I never feel like I've reread a lot but when I look at my list I've done a good amount. This year along with a handful of poetry books I reread Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, Trilby by George du Maurier, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, The Undying by Anne Boyer, An Artist of the Floating World and A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo thee goat Ishiguro, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfesh after watching the movie, The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš and Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic.

22. What's the longest book you read?

The longest was Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which won last year's International Booker and clocks in at 739 pages. It has a lot of very short chapters though and is a pretty quick read, so that feels a little like stolen valor to brag about.

[pensierispettinati]

Perché, sa, è sempre così con i ricordi, non si è mai sicuri.

(Danilo Kiš)

[professeur-stump]

Le capitaine assassin de Dieu et le timonier (assassin des assassins de Dieu) trouvèrent-ils des sujets de conversation sur lesquels ils furent fondamentalement d'accord ?

(Danilo Kiš, Sablier)

[xionisgr]

ISBN: 978-960-04-4011-9 Συγγραφέας: Danilo Kiš Εκδότης: Κέδρος Σελίδες: 345 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2009-10-01 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[manpetasgr]

ISBN: 978-960-04-4011-9 Συγγραφέας: Danilo Kiš Εκδότης: Κέδρος Σελίδες: 345 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2009-10-01 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[kwstasattgr]

ISBN: 978-960-04-4011-9 Συγγραφέας: Danilo Kiš Εκδότης: Κέδρος Σελίδες: 345 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2009-10-01 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[knjigeobradovic]

PSALAM 44 - DANILO KIŠ

[nejjcollectsbooks]

Part 2: This is part of a collection of 50 penguin's modern classics short stories.

Titles in this set (summary taken from the backs of the books):

11. THE LEGEND OF THE SLEEPERS by DANILO KIŠ. Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.

12. THE BLACK BALL by RALPH ELLISON. Stories of belonging and alienation, violence and beauty, racial injustice and unexpected kindness, from a writer of soaring emotion and lyricism.

13. TILL SEPTEMBER PETRONELLA by JEAN RHYS. Four searing stories of women - lost, adrift, down but not quite out - that span the course of a lifetime, from a Caribbean childhood to ruinous adulthood, to old age and beyond.

14. INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG by FRANZ KAFKA. How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.

15. DAYDREAM AND DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY by CLARICE LISPECTOR. Three intoxicating tales of three women - their secret desires, fears and madness - from a giant of Brazilian literature.

16. AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR TOOTHPASTE by RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI. The great traveller-reporter finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-war Poland than in any of the distant lands he has visited.

17. CREATE DANGEROUSLY by ALBERT CAMUS. Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot, in his powerful Nobel Prize speech and lecture.

18. THE VIGILANTE by JOHN STEINBECK. In these searing stories set in California's Salinas Valley, one of America's greatest, most humane writers explores mob violence, a disturbing encounter and a bitter betrayal.

19. I HAVE MORE SOULS THAN ONE by FERNANDO PESSOA. Written in the voices of four different fictional alter egos, these rich, strange and mesmeric verses by Portugal's greatest poet express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings.

20. THE MISSING GIRL by SHIRLEY JACKSON. Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.