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mentioned in any other encyclopedia are automatically omitted from this one, than it is the sum total of everyday occurrences of ordinary folk". The narrator reads the entry on her father and tries to record as much as she can. The story was published in
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Snel, Guido (2004). "Gardens of the Mind, Places of Doubt: Fictionalized
Autobiography in Eastern Europe". In Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (eds.).
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called Kiš "a highly deliberate and self-conscious author of vaguely
Pyrrhic books" and finds "terrible cliches" and predictable outlines in the stories.
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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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315:"The Legend of the Sleepers"
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