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The Attic" is Danilo KiS's first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing, it also tracks his relationship with a colorful cast of characters with nicknames such as Eurydice, Mary Magdalene, Tam-Tam, and Billy Wise Ass. Rich with references to music, painting, philosophy, and gastronomy, this bohemian "Bildungsroman" is...

Against a background of oppression and exile, the debate between death and writing continues unabated in The Lute and the Scars death as allegory or symbolic act, and writing as the one impregnable defense, the only means of survival.

Psalm 44" is the last major work of fiction by Danilo KiS to be translated into English, and his only novel dealing explicitly with Auschwitz (where his own father died). Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 shows KiS at his most lyrical and unguarded, demonstrating that even in "the place of dragons... covered with the shadow of...