The Poetry of A Realistic “Sense”: the Duality of the Hero’s World in Antonije Isaković’s Short Story “There is No End” Cover Image

Поезија реалистичког „чула“: двојност јунаковог света у приповеци „Нема краја“ Антонија Исаковића
The Poetry of A Realistic “Sense”: the Duality of the Hero’s World in Antonije Isaković’s Short Story “There is No End”

Author(s): Milan D. Vurdelja
Subject(s): Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: Antonije Isaković; realism “without shores”; Empty Hills; lyrical prose; poetics; literary innovation

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper are the literary devices thanks to which Antonije Isaković in the short story “There is No End” rethought realistic literary patterns. This short story is chosen because of it’s compositional and, finally, semantic privilege within the prose collection Empty Hills (1969). The epithet realistic here refers to a literary method that goes beyond the stylistic-formative or literary-historical category of realism. The paper will consider the relevant peculiarities of Isaković’s prose, which are illustrative of a type of modernization of post-war Serbian prose on realistic grounds.

  • Issue Year: 55/2023
  • Issue No: 181
  • Page Range: 185-197
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian