УЛИЦОМ НЕСТАЛИХ КЕСТЕНОВА: ЈЕВРЕЈСКА ТЕМА КОД ДАНИЛА КИША
ALONG THE STREET OF DISAPPARED CHESTNUT TREES: JEWISH ISSUE IN DANILO KIŠ’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the Jewish thematic complex in the entire work of Danilo Kiš, including the writer’s explicit and implicit poetics. Taking into account Kiš’s rejection of the term Jewish writer, the dominant direction of interpretation of this level of his work thus inevitably follows the writer’s own interpretation. The paper also noticed and presented the basic motifs which form the internal world of Kiš’s Jewish thematic complex: the motifs of the Babylonian language confusion, inherited guilt, the burden of blood, the flooding of land and others. Kiš’s orientation towards the middle European cultural context was discussed in relation to the Jewish issues, as well as the understanding of literary endeavour as a reconstruction of the disappeared world. In the paper, the Jewish hero was defined as a rebelling victim whose ethical being is based on doubt and re-examination of thruths, instead on blind faith.

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