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Danilo Kis, the Stylish Historian of Infamy

The Atrocity Exhibition

Why did the Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis use modernist experiments to explore the horrors of the Eastern Bloc? Anthony Paletta on his life.

Anthony Paletta
Anthony Paletta
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Anthony Paletta

Anthony Paletta

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