ОБРАСЦИ ГРАЂЕЊА KЊИЖЕВНИХ (АНТИ)ЈУНАКА У ПРОЗИ ВИЛИЈАМА ТРЕВОРА НА ПРИМЕРУ РОМАНА „ФЕЛИСИЈИНО ПУТОВАЊЕ“
PATTERNS OF BUILDING LITERARY (ANTI)HEROES IN THE PROSE OF WILLIAM TREVOR BASED ON THE NOVEL "FELICIA’S JOURNEY"

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the patterns of building literary (anti)heroes in the prose of William Trevor based on the novel Felicia’s Journey (1994). As a standard-bearer of new realism in the contemporary Irish and British literature, William Trevor writes novels, novellas, and short stories with humanised characters, which he builds using the mimetic literary method, shapes by psychological descrip- tion, and evaluates according to the criteria of believability. As a Protestant in the Catholic Ireland, an Irishman in England and a countryman in London, the authorforges his characters on the front line of the archetypal battle between the good and the evil in man and nature, Ireland and England, the country and the city, the old- world religiousness and the new-world loss of faith. The startling plight of all Trevor’s antiheroes (marginalised, atomised and alienated) initiates their introspective evalu- ation until the cathartic self-awareness is achieved through personal epiphany. The most striking character transformations occur on life’s by-paths which irreversibly lead from virtue to sin, from innocence to experience, from the collective and general to the individual and personal. However, the characters’ epiphanic self-awareness is always and exclusively paid by happiness, the loss of which poses the underlying atmosphere, tone, colour, and leitmotif of each and every Trevor’s literary work.

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