Реинтерпретација комичке теме тврдичења у у Мртвим душама Николаја Гогоља и Златном руну Борислава Пекића
Reinterpretation of the Comic Theme of Parsimony in The Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol’ And The Golden Fleece By Borislav Pekić

Summary/Abstract: Based on the theories on laughter, the paper examines how the comic theme of parsimony, after long tradition of the character of miser in comedy genre, is reinterpreted in realistic and post-modern novel, i.e. in The Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol’ and The Golden Fleece by Borislav Pekić, taken as examples which both reinforce and transgress realistic, in the former, and post-modern tradition, in the latter case. What surfaces as the most important question is whether ultimate parsimony can appear comic at all. In the form of an answer to this question, the paper arrives at the conclusion that in these novels the form is funnier than the theme, which means that the comic effects are mostly produced by the operation of language itself, through the mechanical alliance of the structures of the mercantile and the living, or at a meta-level, when the mercantile language, as a hybridized language, deconstructs the represented materialities, showing how unnecessary their comical mimetic presence is.

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