Kiš’s The Paris Trip and the Poetic Reflection of Travel

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https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2025.57.186.1

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Danilo Kiš's prose, The Paris Trip, Тhe Attic, Endre Ady, anacrusis, reflective travel, the truth of (Serbian) literature

Abstract

In the second part of the Introduction to Danilo Kiš’s Poet(h)ics (the version of the first part of the study, which is part of a larger whole, was published in the journal Nasleđe, No. 60 this year), the neglected, small-scale masterpiece The Paris Trip is discussed. This Kiš's early work is a journey into the world of an entire generation of writers after World War II. Relied on the great Hungarian poet Endre Ady, Kiš finds a new poetic model of reflective travel, which bears a great importance for his entire oeuvre. The study then turns to Kiš's first published book, a two-novel series containing Psalm 44 and The Attic.

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2026-01-14

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Vol. 57 No. 186 (2025): Literary History - Journal of Literary Studies

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Readings of tradition

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Kiš’s The Paris Trip and the Poetic Reflection of Travel. (2026). Literary History — Journal of Literary Studies, 57(186), 9-26. https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2025.57.186.1