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Psalm 44
By Danilo Kis
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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 Kiš at his most lyrical and unguarded, demonstrating that even in "the place of dragons . . . covered with the shadow of death," there can still be poetry. Featuring characters based on actual inmates and warders—including the abominable Dr. Mengele—Psalm 44 is a baring of many of the themes, patterns, and preoccupations Kiš would return to in future, albeit never with the same starkness or immediacy.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The little creature kept crying in the intense blackness of the night, and his voice rose, twisting like a vine, like a stalk of some miraculous green plant glimpsed among the cavities of skulls, amid the ashes of a fireplace, from out of the entrails of a corpse; and from far away replied the cannon, proclaiming the terrible love between nations.
The creature is a child. The place Auschwitz. Psalm 44 is a lyrical hiss: what are you going to do with your gift of life? The wage was paid for my ass, here is an itemized receipt. Kiš inserts the personal into his woeful tale. The protagonist's father shares his own dad's name. Both were lost in the dark clouds of the Shoah.
I bought this for my wife for Christmas. She read it yesterday, I today. It is an elliptical tale, paced with omissions and flashbacks. Psalm 44 remains as sinuous as Kiš' vine of the necropolis.
It was sublime here today, rather warm and the sun laughed openly, mocking the remaining snow. I felt guilty about that just now.
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Psalm 44 - Danilo Kis
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