The Use of Principles: On Aleksandar Tišma’s Novi Sad Trilogy
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Bleak is the most common word to describe the writings of Aleksandar Tišma. His Novi Sad trilogy – The Book of Blam (1972), The Use of Man (1980), Kapo (1987) – is considered, ‘hopeless’, ‘relentless’, ‘without respite’. It takes as its subject the Holocaust, and more importantly the afterlife of such an event. Tišma’s clever twist, what sets his novels apart, is his attempt to display multiple levels of guilt and suffering across his trilogy. Trilogy is some ways a misnomer. These novels really form more of a triptych, Hieronymus Bosch’s
The Use of Principles: On Aleksandar Tišma’s Novi Sad Trilogy
The Use of Principles: On Aleksandar Tišma’s…
The Use of Principles: On Aleksandar Tišma’s Novi Sad Trilogy
Bleak is the most common word to describe the writings of Aleksandar Tišma. His Novi Sad trilogy – The Book of Blam (1972), The Use of Man (1980), Kapo (1987) – is considered, ‘hopeless’, ‘relentless’, ‘without respite’. It takes as its subject the Holocaust, and more importantly the afterlife of such an event. Tišma’s clever twist, what sets his novels apart, is his attempt to display multiple levels of guilt and suffering across his trilogy. Trilogy is some ways a misnomer. These novels really form more of a triptych, Hieronymus Bosch’s