Baština (Jan 2019)
Kiss's essays on painting as auto-poetic windows
Abstract
The intensive so far studies of literary oeuvre of Danilo Kiss had turned the attention to a number of interdisciplinary links in his opus, but writer's affinities toward fine arts were indicated mostly passing by. In the paper, biographic-poetic reasons due to which painting got privileged place in his life and creativity, are firstly covered. Starting from Kiss' early auto-poetic and auto-biographic story 'Shoes' (which ends by the hero's unsuccessful attempt to portray his dusty and worn shoes - this metaphor of the one youthful world in disappearance, but obviously by successful grabbing from oblivion through 'story') with professional and private friendship with painters mostly the members of the group Medijala whose programme attitudes were poetically close to him, in the focus of this research his most important essays were put and dedicated to painting. The objective of this paper is to mark and cover more thoroughly those Kiss' uploads in which the recognizable auto-poetic principles from the point of view of modern literary theories are contained: ironic distance, parody, polygraphs, off-customizing, intermediary citation, summing up procedure, alteration of the points of view, thematizing of 'covering' that is 'denuding' and bring into the focus of attention the procedure itself of the artistic shaping, multiplication of the hero and reality, Borhe-Escher's poetics of viewing, meta-theorizing and similar forms of artistic self-consciousness expression. Bearing in mind the fact that auto-poetic paroles on interdisciplinary links of literature and fine arts completely arise from the writer's creative practice, his author's poetics was also taken into account. The research confirmed the hypothesis that the oeuvres of other arts are for Kiss mostly the inducement to speak on those poetic features being characteristic for his creativity by deepening of his own obsessive themes.
