ЛИЦЕТО НА ДЕНЕШНИЦАТА
THE PORTRAIT OF NOW

Summary/Abstract: The novel The Twenty-First by Tomislav Osmanli announces a new narrative paradigm within the corpus of the Macedonian novel, which, in a productive correlation with today’s pulse and rhythm, forges a novelistic-like structure, while deconstructing the once-overtly present unilateral and monolithic view of the world. The linearity of the narration is thus forsaken in favor of presenting the simultaneity of several stories which are finally entrenched in the reality of a global/ized world and the cacophony of the communication practices that set its pulse, hence directing its course towards the phantasmagorical, the virtual, the contingent. The novel realizes itself as a landscape of characters and lives which are destined to intersect on one of the planes of the unilateral reality. Dislocation/Dislocatedness is the key modus so as to withstand the whirlwind of the world’s Disneyland ride undertaken by the Twenty-First, which does not only refer to his spatial orientation but also his temporal presence (re-displaying the represented world also inside history’s amusement park), with repercussions towards the borderlines existing between the real and the imaginary inside the senses’ single temporality.

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