Gogulia M. The prose by Danilo Ki?: paradigmatics and poetics.

This thesis is devoted to the paradigmatics and poetics of the prose by Serbian writer of the 2nd half of the 20th century Danilo Ki?. The principal literary factors which had an influence on the forming of the artistic style, historical and cultural context of the works by D. Ki? were defined. The analysis of the main components of the philosophical-aesthetic paradigms by D. Ki? and its artistic embodiment showed their coordination in the context of the postwar modernism. The Ki?' prose was examined in the existentialistic aspect. Such typical existentials of his works as death, fear, alienation, loneliness, absurdity were analyzed. The existentialist paradigm is complemented by the antitotalitarian narrative, Jewish discourse and the toposes of the city.