ФAКТОГРЛФИЈA И ТAНAТОГРAФИЈA У ГРОБНИЦИ 3A БОРИСA ДAВИДОВИЧA, ПСAЛMУ 44 И ПЕШЧAНИКУ ДAНИЛA КИШA
FACTOGRAPHY AND TANATOGRAPHY IN DANILO KIŠ’S TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVIČ, PSALM 44 AND THE HOURGLASS

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the three works by Danilo Kiš in which death is the central topic: the Soviet camps in the 1930s, the massacre at the Danube in 1942 done by the Hungarian fascists and his father’s death in Auschwitz. The fantastic component in Danilo Kiš’s poetics is in a sense analogous to that notion in Dostoevsky: reality is bizarre, schizoid, paranoid, fantastic. In Kiš’s prose, authentic stories are mixed with the fantastic „documentation” of the catastrophe. Combining different factographic genres and relying on montage and linking, Kiš creates semantic homogeneous entities which relate the literary-fictional of the factual and the factual-realistic of the fictitious document. Fictitious documents are tropes — they function as a metonymy and a metaphor — which replace the real expression, but do not erase it, so a trope carries the burden of a testimony. In his hybrid narrative constructions, Kiš develops an intensified semantics of tanatography.

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