The poetics of legend: the paradigmatic approach to legend in Danilo Kis's A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Zoric, Vladimir | Copyright information

The Poetics of Legend: The Paradigmatic Approach to Legend in Danilo Kis's A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Vladimir Zoric.

This article discusses the structural role of legendary paradigms in three of the stories in Danilo Kis's collection A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. In The Mechanical Lions' legend is conceived as a tool of the implied prosecutor, who opposes the arguments of the protagonist,' free will to those of preordination In Dogs and Books' and 'A Tomb for Boris D...

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