Aleksandar Tišma

Aleksandar Tišma ( born January 16, 1924 in Horgoš, † February 16, 2003 in Novi Sad ) was a Serbian writer.

Life

Tišma was born in 1924 the son of a Serb and a Hungarian Jew in Horgoš on the border of Yugoslavia to Hungary. He attended school in Novi Sad, where he in 1942 the Abitur. Then he started in Budapest to study the economy and Romance. In 1944 he was called up for digging trenches against the invading Red Army to Transylvania. From there he took from November 1944 to the People's Liberation Movement part.

He has worked since 1945 as a journalist with the newspaper Slobodna Vojvodina and Borba as well as an editor for the yearbook of Matica srpska. From 1950 he occupied himself with literary work. In 1954, he took off a degree in English at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Belgrade. In addition to his literary works he translated from German and Hungarian. Later, he lived in France and Novi Sad.

Aleksandar Tišma was from May to August 2000 On Literature House Basel " Writer in Residence ".

Tisma work is considered part of world literature. In his works, he focused the failure of European humanism. His autobiographical first five books together form a cycle of novels, set in his home town of Novi Sad.

Works

A) novel cycle (in order of chronology of the development; annual figures denote the German first publication, all at Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich and Vienna)

The following five novels that Tišma called his Pentateuch even later, form a cycle by reference to describe individual stories, such as the marked by war, occupation and the Holocaust years work into the post-war presence of life in Novi Sad.

  • The book Blam ( Knjiga o Blamu ). Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna, 1991, ISBN 978-3-446-17822-9
  • The use of man ( Upotreba čoveka ). Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna, 1991, ISBN 978-3-446-15752-1
  • Kapo. Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-446-19134-1
  • Loyalty and betrayal ( i Vere zavere ). Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-446-19667-4
  • We love ( bunk volimo ). Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 978-3-446-17823-6

B ) Other in German transmitted works ( according to criteria a)

  • The school of impiety. 4 stories ( Škola bezbožništva ) translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-446-17042-1
  • Without a cry. Narratives ( Bez krika ). 2001, ISBN 978-3-446-17823-6
  • Travel in my forgotten I, Diary 1942-1951. Meridians in Central Europe. Translation by Barbara Antkowiak, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-446-20359-4.
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