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КОНСТРУИРАНИ (И)СТОРИИ
CONSTRUCTED (HI)STORIES

Author(s): Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova
Subject(s): Fiction
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: postmodernist historical novel; history-literature relation; narrative; epistemological skepticism; Evgeny Vodolazkin

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the novel Solovyov and Larionov by the contemporary Russian writer Evgeny Vodolazkin through the prism of interdiscursive relations of novel-history/ historiography. Starting from the theories of the postmodernist historical novel (Elizabeth Wesseling, Brian McHale, Linda Hutchon), the interpretation is focused on one of the dominant aspects of this literary genre - the immanent provocation of the relationship between fiction and history that is realized in multiple ways: through affirmation of their common narrative aspects, through epistemological problematizations of historical knowledge and truth and by illustrating the mediated availability of the past through its textual traces.

  • Issue Year: 20/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 14-29
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Macedonian
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