Résumé:
Literature is the mirror of human being actual life and what is called reality, and history is the
recording of the events of this life and its reality. The dichotomy literature /History in one
text is what postmodernism treated as “Faction” and “metafiction”. The Da Vinci Code
(2003) is a novel written by Dan Brown. The novel is about a journey of deciphering the
codes and the hidden messages in one of Da Vinci’s eternal masterpieces “The Last Supper”.
Many issues are brought by this novel, but the dangerous secret of Mary Magdalene and the
quest of the Holy Grail were, and for quite a while, under the spot light of controversialist
couple (truth/fiction). All things considered, the mystery of Holy Grail is simple discussing
the biography of Mary Magdalene as Jesus' companion. Further, in light of this novel, Mary
Magdalene is a lady whose womb conveys Jesus' bloodline. This portrayal of Mary
Magdalene is altogether different to what the Roman Catholic Church has delineated. For the
Roman Catholic Church, Mary Magdalene is one of Jesus' followers. She is a lady who came
at the Jesus' crucifixion and an observer of Jesus' resurrection. This investigation is centred
around those various representations of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail. The distinctions
are seen through the viewpoint of New Historicism, where both artistic fiction texts and
historical ones are taken in an equivalent position. In addition, how interpreters translate the
data will pick up the distinctive portrayal of Mary Magdalene. Through the process of
choosing and contextualizing, the interpreters have taken a specific rambling development
dependent on their own experience and their own aim. In this manner, in light of New
Historicism viewpoint, there is nothing but fact in these representations, the only thing is
interpretation.
