ИДЕОЛОШКА РАСЛОЈАВАЊА И КОНСТРУКЦИЈЕ ПОЛУИСТИНА У "ЛАГУМУ" СВЕТЛАНЕ ВЕЛМАР­ ЈАНКОВИЋ
IDEOLOGICAL STRATIFICATIONS AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SEMI-TRUTHS IN SVETLANA VELMAR-JANKOVIĆ’S NOVEL "LAGUM"

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is a new historicism reading of the novel Lagum by Svetlana Velmar-Janković. The chronotope of post-war Belgrade and the desti- nies of characters of various profiles in the communist environment are suitable for analyzing the dynamic model of culture and ideological traces in the narrative. The paper deals with the dominant ideologies of the literary template, narrative instances as important elements of the ideology of the text, as well as the problem of the relationship between literary material and its artistic transposition. Narrator Milica Pavlović writes memoirs in her old age, offering a personal view of the past, aware that she cannot present it objectively, which makes her view of the Truth as an unattainable ideology unusually close to the understanding of new historicism. Lagum is a work in which ideological inscriptions can be said to be inconsistent to the extent already announced by its motto, and the notion of the authentic past is revised during the complex processes of writing and reception. The search for a great History, as an objective Truth about the past, remains at the intersection of small, personal histories and their semi-truths.

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