Contribuţia noului istorism în cercetarea operei lui Danilo Kiš
The contribution of the new historicism in the research of Danilo Kiš's work

Summary/Abstract: The present paper delineates the works of Danilo Kiš from the perspective of the alliance between the cultural codes and the position of power within the context of the new historicism based upon the conception of the anthropological literature. It is offered by the talented researcher of Shakespeare’s works, Stephen Greenblatt. The works of Danilo Kiš becomes a complex system of diverse discourses that oppose each other. They are not only part of the culture but an active dynamic part of historical processes and not their echo or picture. At first sight, the barely visible link between Stephen Greenblatt and Danilo Kiš realizes itself in the manner they are writing, in their social ethics and creative aesthetics, taking into consideration the fact that art is indicative of ethics and not only an aesthetic orientation in which we can see the position of the artist in the continuous process of oscillation between homo-politicus and homo-poeticus. The aim of this article is to explain how the manner of narration from Shakespeare’s works could be recognized 400 years later in the works of Danilo Kiš. Viewed from this perspective, the common features of the two characters Eduard Sam - Danilо Kiš and Hamlet – W. Shakespeare opens a series of thematic tendencies: the problem of history, of the state, of the role of the individual within the state, of politics, revenge, crime, morality, insanity, human body, of the unconscious.

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