МЕТАФОРАТА КОЈA СЕ ПОВТОРУВА КАКО ЗАЕДНИЧКИ МОТИВ ВО РОМАНИТЕ СЕНКИТЕ НА СОНОТ ОД ЈОВАН ДАМЈАНОВСКИ И ПОЖАР ОД ПЕТРЕ ДИМОВСКИ
The Methapor that Repeats as a Shared Motif in the Novels Dream’s Shadows by Jovan Damjanovski and Arson by Petre Dimovski

Summary/Abstract: The interest in this paper was focused on couple of operative terms, mainly on the repetitive metaphor as a shared motif in two contemporary Macedonian novels – Senkite na sonot/Dreams’ shadows (2009) by Jovan Damjanovski and Pozhar/Arson (2010) by Petre Dimovski, both published by the Panili publishing house. These novels were published in the same time period and both of their authors are born the same year (1946). These are just a few of the similarities between these texts and precisely this makes their reading through the same interpretative optics possible. However, more importantly, in both of these novels we encounter something that we defined as “the repetitive metaphor”, which serves as a shared motif in both of the novels and functions both on literary and figurative level. The repeating metaphor of the so called “dreams’ shadows” in Damjanovski’s novel is used to signalize the shift from this material and physical world, to the world of dreams, to the oniric, the sensed, the almost imagined world “on the other side” (of life and of life experience). The repeating metaphor of the arson, as well as of various related synonyms of fire, is used in Dimovski’s novel to distinguish a shift in his character’s inner world and how they perceive reality. Thus, the repeating metaphor is a shared motif in both of these novels, which also share other features, such a similarity in treated topics (the beginning of the Macedonian transition), similar characters (self-aware and introspective ones), similar treatment of female characters (traditional vis-à-vis modern, progressive, emancipated female characters). The conclusion should show that the repeating or repetitive metaphor serves on multiple levels of the novels.

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