„O miasto nierzeczywiste”...Infernalne przestrzenie prozy Miodraga Bulatovicia

• Authors: Miłosz Bukwalt

Title variants

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OH, THE UNREAL CITY... THE INFERNAL SPACE IN THE PROSE WORKS BY MIODRAG BULATOVIĆ

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This article is an attempt to describe the meaningful, symbolic, metaphorical and metonymical elements of inhuman urban space present in the prose works by Bulatović. The detailed analysis includes the discussion of structural features of the urban hell, the presentation of its permanent attributes and inhabitants – “the people of the lowest rank” who are led by the mentally ill misfits and political and economic immigrants from the Balkans and the Central and Eastern Europe. The study includes the examination of the static elements of the big-city infernum (a tavern with people of dubious repute as the reflection of the otherworldly space). It also draws the attention to the mental picture of the city created in the mind of a mad person (the urban space as a perceptive creation, an infernal labyrinth, a trap, and a place of assault). It also presents the space of the West European metropolis as the area of criminal activities of the immigrant rabble, revanchists, and political vampires (the acts of the characters in the liminal space of the city: railway stations, underground stations and tunnels, bars, cemeteries). The basic discussion is preceded with the reflection on the infernal inspirations, derived from painting and literature, in the prose works by Miodrag Bulatović (referring to the cultural context, interdisciplinary perspective). The article makes use of the conceptual apparatus in the scope of demonology, infernology, psychopathology, the anthropology of culture, and the history of art.

Keywords

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Miodrag Bulatović; urban space; infernum

• Publisher: Committee on Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Pamiętnik Słowiański
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 81-106

Contributors

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Miłosz Bukwalt

• Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 53-313 Wrocław, ul. Pocztowa 9