THE NOVEL »GARDEN, ASHES«: NARRATIVE UNCONSCIOUS

Abstract

»Fissures« that appear in the narrative tissue of Danilo Kiš‘s novel Garden, Ashes are fragmenting the continuity and the monolithic nature of the story, permitting the analysis of the interpenetration of psychological and narrative potentials of this novel, of its narrative unconscious. From Garden, the Ashes we may move towards a description of a transnarrative psychological story of Kiš’s Family Circus, a story reflected not in the psychological dynamics of the subject (narration about the protagonist) but in the »psychological« dynamics of narrative techniques. In this paper, the revealing of the natural unconscious is viewed from the angle of forming an exploratory (research) narration, while the narration based on memory is dismantled and dismissed.