Encyclopedia of the Dead
Michael Henry Heim
(Translator)
Description
Product Details
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Publish Date | January 07, 1998 |
| Pages | 201 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780810115149 |
| Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.2 X 0.7 inches | 0.6 pounds |
About the Author
MICHAEL HENRY HEIM (1943-2012) was a Professor of Slavic Languages, at the University California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his doctorate at Harvard in 1971. He is an active and prolific translator, and is fluent in Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Reviews
"[Kis's] pen, often literally verging into eternity, does to his characters what nearly every known creed aspires to do to the human soul: it extends their existence, it erodes our sense of death's impenetrability." --Joseph Brodsky
"Remarkable . . . A shadow of death darkens this book, but it is a beautiful shadow and a luminescent darkness." --Josef Skvorecky, The New Republic
"This is one of the finest fantastic collections since Borges's Ficciones." --Brendan Lemon, The Nation
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