„ОТСЕКОГАШ МИСЛЕВ ДЕКА НЕМА ДА ПИШУВАМ КАКО ЖЕНА„ (Женското писмо во расказите Мирис на Оливера Николова и Варовник во прав на Оливера Ќорвезироска
„I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT I WOULD NOT WRITE LIKE A WOMAN“: Women`s Writing in the Two Short Stories, The Smell by Olivera Nikolova and The Limestone Powder by Olivera Kjorveziroska

Summary/Abstract: The authentic thematic preoccupations and approach specific for women authors in the Macedonian prose (as women`s writing, defined by the Anglo-American feminist critics, such as Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, or Joanna Russ) can be illustrated by the analysis of two short stories: The Smell by Olivera Nikolova and The Limestone Powder by Olivera Kjorveziroska. The former, written in an unusual narrative approach of second person storytelling, is a mimesis of giving birth, a process depicting the exclusive female corporal experience. As such, it stretches the boundaries of the female body to a previously unknown degree of expansion and transformation, being followed by the narrative structure of the story. The latter is women`s writing which, again, mimetically follows the internal world of the female subject - it is a patchwork, sewn together by pieces of deep and subtle emotions on one hand, and mundane, everyday tasks of a housewife, made perfect by the long years of marital practice. The alienation between the spouses is metaphorically turned into a limestone, powdered to spice the everyday life and thus made to truly disappear.

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