The town and the townspeople in the novel “Garden, Ashes” by Danilo Kiš

The novel by Serbian author Danilo Kiš (1935‒1989) “Garden, Ashes” (1965) is his first major work. demonstrates the writer’s completely formed style, models and techniques, as well key themes concepts. topoi loci of a relatively small provincial town, socio-anthropological types townpeople are presented through prism “child’s perspective” in memoirs narrator-hero, colored adult bitter irony. town appears full sounds, colors, smells, child’s memory captures urban legends, rumors, everyday practices (country walks on Sundays). In there also special spaces (heterotopia) — room house Horse Chestnut Street, train compartment, ghetto where father sent— hero-narrator gets experience. based facts biography, closely related to tragic events twentieth century (the World War II death Auschwitz).