ПЕЛИКАН КАО ИСТОРИЈСКА РЕФЕРЕНЦА ЧАРЛСА I У РОМАНУ О ЛОНДОНУ МИЛОША ЦРЊАНСКОГ
THE PELICAN AS A HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO CHARLES I IN MILOŠ CRNJANSKI’S "A NOVEL OF LONDON"

Summary/Abstract: The paper reveals the semantic scope of the bestiary figure of pelican in Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London. The transparency of the London world en- capsulates the animal as such into the idea of suicide and execution. By emitting mortal energy, pelicans also represent a historical reference to the English monarch Charles I. The symbolism of the bird is hidden behind its corporeality, whereas the motif of death denotes a parallelism between the destinies of the English ruler and the Russian duke Ryepnin. The bestiary complexity of the pelican opens a thanatic horizon of the animal while also concealing it and preserving it in its transparent representation.

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