Dramatizacija Kišovog „Časa anatomije”
Dramatization of "Anatomy Lesson" by Danilo Kiš

Summary/Abstract: After publishing A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1976), the book which was marked by: death, destruction of the human body, conceptual eradication of people and abuse of human liberty by the “Stalin inquisition,”Danilo Kis found himself in the spotlight of Yugoslav critical public. He was subjected to a media lynch and public denunciation which developed into court proceedings which Kis won. In response to serious accusations and attacks that he was a plagiarist, Kis wrote, an auto-poetic book The Anatomy Lesson(1978), which manages to be at once an essay stating the highest literary principles, and a savage personal attack on his critical enemies. The result, of course, was that he then faced a trial for libel. He won that, too. Historic example of a public anatomy lesson is illustrated in Rembrandt’s paintings The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp. As a visual metaphor, it contributed to the process of reconstructing social events at the time “when Kis’s Anatomy Lesson was taught. The scandals and furores convinced him that he could no longer live in Belgrade. In 1979, he moved to Paris, where he lived for the rest of his life. Our analysis relates to the genre experiments and effects of reading Kiš’s Anatomy Lesson in a dramatic key. In a new multi-perspective space of ideas broken down into semantic units defined in a different way, we enter the new artistic contexts. This is to underline the three times intertextual connections of painting, literature and theatre.

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