Vuletic, Ivana

About the author: Ivana Vuletic received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prose Fiction of Danilo KiŠ, Serbian Jewish Writer

2003 0-7734-6777-7
Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš is one of the best-known fiction writers of central and southeastern Europe. This study examines Kiš’s prose as a textual exploration of different modes of self-constitution, executed in order to construct a personal history and a self-portrait. It examines Kiš’s ‘family cycle’ (the novels Early Sorrows; Garden, Ashes; and Hourglass) as a performative act in which a textual inscription of the self mimics the gradual unfolding and constitution of the subject through the three different orders described in Lacan’s writings as Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real. Another chapter analyzes the documentary film Bare Existence (directed by Aleksandar Mandic) for which Kiš co-wrote the script and in which he appears as the interviewer of two women.