“The Brain That Fell Out Of the Skull”. Hourglass of Danilo Kiš as an Illness/Disease Narrative about Stray Rationalism Cover Image

„Мозак који је избачен из лобање“: Пешчаник Данила Киша као ауто/патографија о залуталом рационализму
“The Brain That Fell Out Of the Skull”. Hourglass of Danilo Kiš as an Illness/Disease Narrative about Stray Rationalism

Author(s): Silvija Novak Bajcar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: Hourglass;Danilo Kiš;écriture patografique;illness/disease narrative;rationalism;the Novi Sad raid;new French novel;phenomenology;

Summary/Abstract: The central place of Danilo Kiš’s novel Hourglass, which is a kind of an illness/disease narrative (écriture patografique), is occupied by the human condition as an animal rationale. It was one of the subjects raised by many intellectuals, including Edmund Husserl, whose name does not appear here accidentally. Phenomenology was a strong intellectual impetus for the authors of the new French novel. Although in his statements Kiš resolutely distanced himself from any connections with him, emphasizing the documentary, auto/biographical character of his work, in this article I point to the existent (albeit unintended) connections between Kiš’s novel and the literary views of his French colleagues.

  • Issue Year: 51/2019
  • Issue No: 169
  • Page Range: 315-327
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian