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Article: Autobiographical sketch (short autobiography). (excerpt from 'Mansarda') (Paul Auster/Danilo Kis)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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My Father first saw the light of day in the western part of Hungary. He completed trade school in the hometown of a certain Mr. Viraga who, thanks to Mr. Joyce, would become the famous Leopold Bloom. I suppose it was because of the liberal politics of Francis Joseph II and at the same time the desire to assimilate that my grandfather gave his very young son a Hungarian name. There are, however, many other elements from our family history that will remain forever obscure because in 1944 my father along with all of our relatives was taken to Auschwitz from where almost none of them returned.
Among my mother's ancestors, there is a legendary Montenegrin hero who ...