Poetica spaţiilor culturale în opera lui Danilo Kiš
The poetics of cultural spaces in the work of Danilo Kiš

Summary/Abstract: Utilizing the poetics of space put forward by Gaston Bachelard (La poétique de l’espace, 1957) we have made an endeavor, based upon his spatial configuration, to delve deeply into D. Kiš’s work. It should be pointed out that the physical‐geographic topics related to the novel Hourglass (1972) are inextricably tied up with the elusive slippery entity of the Central Europe, of Pannonia field, of one space, "that was once the bottom of the Pannonian Sea, which has long since disappeared". It is by no means a sheer coincidence that the motives and their spatial configurations in Danilo Kiš’s work (Hourglass) are dominated by the image of the world that is draining. Into the bargain, we have to deal with the particular area of the border which provides an image of the dichotomous categorization of integration/ disintegration as well as inclusion/exclusion, and with the identity crisis which has afflicted characters of Hourglass, specifying and expounding the imaginary hypothetical border that is ever locate t might be.

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