ПОЛИТИЧКОТО ВО РОМАНОТ ГРАД, ГОДИНИ, ЛУЃЕ ОД ЈОВАН ПАВЛОВСКИ
THE POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL CITY, YEARS, PEOPLE FROM JOVAN PAVLOVSKI

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the text is the thesis of Ruzdi, which states that democracy, after the fall of communism, has literature as a possibility, which through opposition can be explained. This thesis is developed and aimed towards breaking up opposition through a dialogue of politics and literature. Within Jovan Pavlovski’s novel City, Years, People there is an analysis that examines such a possibility. Starting from the dominant theme – violence, as well as the leitmotif – smell, the text analyzes the stereotypical representations of the ethnic Other, not as a repetition of “mental maps” within the perception of the other, but much rather as a possibility for setting, in the first place, a plan for tragic consequences. With that a question arises relating to the common effect between political and symbolical in terms of the creation of interest zones and the position of power. From here, the historic picture of the world, which Pavlovski’s novel concludes with, is not a mythological viewpoint of history, but rather a voice that attempts to act as a corrective to the politics of interest and power.

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