Hourglass (Kiš novel)

Peščanik is a 1972 novel by Yugoslav novelist Danilo Kiš, translated as Hourglass by Ralph Manheim (1990). Hourglass tells the account of the final months in a man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, and is the author's best known work.[1] Hourglass is in part based on the life of the author's Jewish father, who died at Auschwitz.[2]

References

Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ana-Cristina Halichias, Nicolae-Andrei Popa - Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World 1443896462 2016 BETWEEN FRIGHT AND MADNESS IN DANILO KIŠ' NOTES OF A MADMAN Lidija ČOLEVIĆ University of Bucharest ... from Danilo Kiš' novel Hourglass (1972), as they describe the horrors of the Holocaust and of the concentration camps,
David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide - Page 277 1611683599 2012 "If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this novel by the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš hearkens back to Borges's 1943 ... Hourglass can also be read as the author's loving portrait of his Jewish father, also named Eduard and also a retired ..."

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[1] Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ana-Cristina Halichias, Nicolae-Andrei Popa - Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World 1443896462 2016 BETWEEN FRIGHT AND MADNESS IN DANILO KIŠ' NOTES OF A MADMAN Lidija ČOLEVIĆ University of Bucharest ... from Danilo Kiš' novel Hourglass (1972), as they describe the horrors of the Holocaust and of the concentration camps,

[2] David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide - Page 277 1611683599 2012 "If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this novel by the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš hearkens back to Borges's 1943 ... Hourglass can also be read as the author's loving portrait of his Jewish father, also named Eduard and also a retired ..."