Histoire, espace et litterature dans les balkans
History, Space and Literature in Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Abstract In the Luan Starova’s novel The Time of the Goats the movements of the shepherds’ population from the mountains to the city of Skopje symbolize the dislocation of the old traditional mentality, in order to be replaced by the “new ideology” communist. The construction of this world supposes a double dislocation: concrete, geographic, and the inside of the individual, as an aliasing. In the Balkans it is a special form of the relation between history and the human being. The encounter of the two worlds (the traditional village and the town) becomes the encounter of two mentalities, especially in an ideological way and less in the field of the cultural anthropology, because the intellectual which save himself in his interiority has the same nostalgias as the young shepherd which guards the ewes in the downtown. The micro-space becomes a form of salvation: the safe, the drawers, the books, the houses, because the macro-space of the country, of the town, of the central square, the open spaces are paradoxically felonious. The spaces of Starova, in a concrete and in a symbolic way, are the confrontation between two ideologies – a traditional one, very strong in Balkans and another dictated by the politic, without roots in this zone. The castle - in fact the Kalé – the fortresses it’s a conservative space, face to face with the dizziness of the history and of the politic.

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