Baština (Jan 2013)
Relationship between truth and fiction in The list of future deceased of Danilo Nikolić
Abstract
The issue of the relationship of art toward reality, old as well as the art itself has represented one of the central and the most sensitive themes of literary-theoretic studies until now. These relations were made more complex by the gradual vanish of boundaries between the categories of reality, truth, and cognition. The understanding of art as the transposition of sensory reality had already anticipated in the antiquity that the truth of literary oeuvre depended more on the extent how it corresponded to the actual social, political and ideological than universal standards. When it did not correspond to that kind of the established paradigm, the creativity was often discredited as false one. New novel of Danilo Nikolić is a multifold recapitulation of his themes and procedures, beginning with 'the installation of attractions', and taking into account of social-historic context and reality in which the narration 'is taking place', until a recognizable autobiographic writer's share in the role of story-teller. By the fundamental 'decomposition' of discourse in question it is answered to the statement of Paul Ricoeur the act of writing represents a particular type of narrative identity establishment (main character-writer), since the biographic sign in the novel the List of Future Deceased is almost dominant.
