Description

Against a history of oppression and exile, the discussion between death and writing proceeds unabated within The Lute and the Scars: death as allegory or representational work, and writing whilst the one impregnable protection, the only real way of survival.Written between 1980 and 1986, the six tales that represent The Lute and the Scars (in addition to an untitled piece by the writer, incorporated below as “An and B”) were transcribed in the manuscripts left by Danilo Kiš pursuing his death in 1989. Such as the title tale, several scrolls are autobiographical. Others restore protagonists belonging to Kiš’s other Central-European writers, permitting readers to recognize, possibly, with respect to the degree of obfuscation, dream,and historical precision, numbers thought up by Ödön von Horváth and Endre Ady (“The Stateless”), by the Yugoslavian Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić (“Debt”), and by Piotr Rawicz.Against a history of oppressive regimes and political exile, readers will discover the never ending discussion between death and writing proceeds unabated in these stories—death as allegory or as a voluntary representational work, and writing whilst the one impregnable protection, writing whilst the only feasible way of success.