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Danilo Kis Books
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Rani jadi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as danilo-kis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,410 ratings — published 1970
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as danilo-kis)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,683 ratings — published 1976
Garden, Ashes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as danilo-kis)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,791 ratings — published 1965
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as danilo-kis)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,943 ratings — published 1983
Hourglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as danilo-kis)
avg rating 4.31 — 719 ratings — published 1972
Gorki talog iskustva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as danilo-kis)
avg rating 4.46 — 63 ratings — published 1990
Mansarda (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as danilo-kis)
avg rating 3.90 — 923 ratings — published 1962
Antaeus #62 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as danilo-kis)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1989
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.'
A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
