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The Encyclopedia of the Dead
''The Encyclopedia of the Dead'' (Serbo-Croatian: ''Enciklopedija mrtvih'') is a collection of nine stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš. Combining history and fiction in what critics have seen as a postmodern fashion, the stories (which have been compared to the work of Jorge Luis Borges) have helped cement Kiš's legacy as one of the most important 20th-century Yugoslav authors.
==Background and contents==
''The Encyclopedia of the Dead'', Kiš's final work, was first published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983. A French translation by Pascale Delpech was published by Gallimard in 1985, and received a mixed review in ''World Literature Today'', the reviewer finding them of uneven literary quality (but the translation "excellent"). It was translated in English by Michael Henry Heim (a translation praised for its faithfulness in preserving the original "clarity and precision"〔) and published in 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, then republished in 1997 by Northwestern UP in their European Classics series.
The stories combine fiction and history in a postmodern fashion. In a postscript, Kiš provides historical backgrounds and other information. As in his other works, in ''The Encyclopedia'' Kiš attempts to "piece together the hybrid identity of the Balkans"; his effort "is mediated through contradictory strategies (documentary, myth, imaginary projection, metafictional allusions and references) that cannot provide narrative coherences or certitudes". ''A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' was "a cenotaph...for the hidden victims of Stalin's purges", and ''The Encyclopedia'' is an extension of that project of cataloging the victims of history "along more blatantly metaphysical lines", according to Chris Power.〔 As in ''A Tomb'', a predilection with missing texts is an important theme in ''The Encyclopedia''—in ''A Tomb'', for instance, the missing entry in the ''Encyclopedia of Revolutionaries'' for the titular character, and in ''An Encyclopedia'' the lost correspondence of Mendel Osipovich in "Red Stamps with Lenin's Picture".
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