A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Danilo Kiš · 1935–1989 · Yugoslavia / Serbia

Originally Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča (Serbo-Croatian)

Why it matters

Seven tales of old revolutionaries devoured by the Stalinist machine, told as forged documents. Kiš exposes how the totalitarian state rewrites a human being out of existence.

At a glance

Faux-documentary form and dense historical allusion blur fact and fiction deliberately.