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IS 'ME' MY HERO? ROLE-PLAY BY DAVID ALBAHARI

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Giergiel S.
Pamiętnik Słowiański
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2007
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vol. 57
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issue 1
35-54
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This paper analyses three works by David Albahari - a collection of essays under the title 'Teret', and two novels: 'Pijavice' and 'Svetski putnik'. The study focuses on the relations between the empirical author, literary subject, and the characters portrayed in the three texts. Another focus of interest is the influence of history on the individual. Taking into consideration the author's comments in the works themselves, the world they uncover, and character construction, one finds their way to the writer's characteristic interpretation of historical facts. These pertain to the Serbian and Croatian reality of the 1990s: the time of war and first post-war years. It is strongly believed that while constructing the characters of 'Svetski putnik' and the novel 'Pijavice', Albahari used the elements of his personal biography and furnished them with views and experiences coinciding with his own. However, in all the three works, the author, playing games with the reader, 'juggled' with the roles of the empirical author, the narrator, and characters. This peculiar play with the reader (and with own biography) takes place on several levels: the narrator is not equipped with the author's biography, yet its traces are either invested into one of the characters, or affect the portrayed world. Thus, while lacking the identity within the personal plane, we get the integrity on the broader plane, which touches the identicalness of experience transferred thus onto a more general reflection on reality.
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ON DEMONIC NATURE OF ART. RADOSLAV PETKOVIC'S 'IZVESTAJ O KUGI' AND BORISLAV PEKIC'S 'NOVI JERUSALIM'

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Giergiel S.
Pamiętnik Słowiański
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2008
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vol. 58
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issue 1
67-90
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The following text's centre of interest is the collection of short stories by Radoslav Petkovic called 'Izvestaj o kugi'. The short stories contained in the above mentioned volume serve as an illustration of a thesis according to which Petkovic may be regarded as a direct continuator of Borislav Pekic's poetics as well as the heir of literary strategies of Danilo Kis. All the writers mentioned are bound by series of similarities found within the formal aspect of their short stories as well as in their ideological significance. The paper points out some new concurrences, being however mostly focused on the issue of demonic character of art. For it is this topic that becomes the principal motif of both Petkovic and Pekic. The artist's genius of both the prose writers may be seen in the complete identification of a person with his creation. The creative energy however, as if taking revenge on the artists' mastery, causes most often his annihilation on 'artistic' as well as at times on physical level.
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