Homo Poeticus: Essays and Interviews

by Danilo Kis, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Francis Jones (Translator)

Overview

Serbian writer Danilo Kis was preoccupied with man's dehumanization in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His dazzling fiction established him as one of the most artful and eloquent authors of postwar Europe. In this first collection of his non-fiction, Kis displays the dynamic, sensitive, and insistently questioning approach to the dilemmas of the modern world that distinguishes his novels and stories and confirms his reputation as one of the most important voices of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529444
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Danilo Kis is the author of Homo Poeticus.

Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85.

What People are Saying About This

Richard Howard

These brief responses constitute a whole breviary of the writer's responsibility; Kis wrote small but thought large, and his map of cultural estrangement — crystallized, witty, quick — is not so much criticism, though the essays on Sade and Nabokov are the best of that, as designs for survival. A fierce and remedial desk-top pillow-book.