Masterpiece of modernity and scandalous stone in the former Yugoslavia when it was published in 1976, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich explores the mechanisms of fanaticism and intolerance. The common destiny of the characters that populate its pages (revolutionaries and secret agents, idealists and opportunists, victims and executioners) draws a crude bas-relief in which the human temptations to exterminate the adversary and the mechanisms of oppression and annulment that so deep and terrible consequences had in our recent past. As Joseph Brodsky points out in the introductory text that opens the present volume, this is a timeless book, of a deep excellence, that "endows its dying metamorphoses with an additional beauty".