Hourglass (Kiš novel)

Peščanik is a 1972 novel by Yugoslav novelist Danilo Kiš, translated as Hourglass by Ralph Manheim (1990). Hourglass tells the account of the final months in a man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, and is the author's best known work.^[1] Hourglass is in part based on the life of the author's Jewish father, who was murdered in Auschwitz.^[2]

References

^ Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ana-Cristina Halichias, Nicolae-Andrei Popa - Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World 1443896462 2016 BETWEEN FRIGHT AND MADNESS IN DANILO KIŠ' NOTES OF A MADMAN Lidija ČOLEVIĆ University of Bucharest ... from Danilo Kiš' novel Hourglass (1972), as they describe the horrors of the Holocaust and of the concentration camps,
^ David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide - Page 277 1611683599 2012 "If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this novel by the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš hearkens back to Borges's 1943 ... Hourglass can also be read as the author's loving portrait of his Jewish father, also named Eduard and also a retired ..."

[1] Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ana-Cristina Halichias, Nicolae-Andrei Popa - Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World 1443896462 2016 BETWEEN FRIGHT AND MADNESS IN DANILO KIŠ' NOTES OF A MADMAN Lidija ČOLEVIĆ University of Bucharest ... from Danilo Kiš' novel Hourglass (1972), as they describe the horrors of the Holocaust and of the concentration camps,

[2] David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide - Page 277 1611683599 2012 "If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this novel by the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš hearkens back to Borges's 1943 ... Hourglass can also be read as the author's loving portrait of his Jewish father, also named Eduard and also a retired ..."

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