Nova oblikovnost u južnoslavenskom postmodernističkom romanu (Konceptualno-strukturalne srodnosti romanesknog diskursa Dževada Karahasana, Milorada Pavića i Jasne Horvat)
New Formalness in South Slavic Postmodern Novel (Conceptual and Structural Relatedness of Novelistic Discourses of Dževad Karahasan, Milorad Pavić and Jasna Horvat)

Summary/Abstract: The paper questions the similarities between three authors’ discourses from different national-cultural habitus – Bosnian writer Dž. Karahasan, Serbian writer M. Pavić and Croatian writer J. Horvat. Three key texts from each of the authors are analyzed in this paper − Istočni diwan, Hazarski rečnik and Az. All these three novels are treated as untypical examples of postmodern discourse, which on the formal-structurally level strive towards pronounced conceptualization while on the level of content and worldview they don’t give up corresponding with systems oriented towards cognition – with science, philosophy and religion. All these three authors maximally bring to consciousness the novelistic form, using it as a matrix in an attempt to reach the code of cognizing the world and man. The common basic point of reference of the all these three novelistic practices in this is syntactic and semantic-related questioning of the principles of reflecting a part in the whole and vice versa – the key motif, and also the mode of presentation of said reflection, in Karahasan is arabesque, in Pavić a dictionary, and in Horvat geometry and arithmetic. Besides that, on the level of syntactic substructure all these three novelistic practices are characterized by specific inlay types of discourse and metatextual “accessories” of the text.

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