Danilo Kiš și Europa Centrală – heterotopie și identitate

Paying attention to understanding the identity of the Central European space through a brief review of the contemporary studies of culture, politics, imagology, we have based upon the most diverse and above all topical narrative formula that Danilo Kiš has offered in his novels, essay reflections and interviews. In consideration of Central Europe as a part of cultural policy and as part of the aesthetic doctrine, we have been helped by the principles of heterotopia offered by M. Foucault. Going into some sensitive issues of incomplete inferior cultural identity and viability of the concept of cultural identity of Serbian literature in relation to the imminent epochal developments of postcolonialism and multiculturalism, would mean to take into account the fact that in this complex field any peripherical society, including Serbian, has to deal with the specific historical contingencies. And after more than two decades since the collapse of the Yugoslav community, within the social and political implications of the above-mentioned new trends and cultural orientations, the contemporary Serbian scene again is facing with the experience of political and cultural discontinuity. In such an atmosphere, that it is still ongoing, the consequences of Kiš’s understanding of the phenomenon of Central Europe continue to provoke.