Девојачки роман као Bildungsroman (75–94)
The Young Girl’s Novel as Bildungsroman

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes Young Girl’s Novel by Draga Gavrilović. In the first place,analysis deals with unusual reception of this novel in Serbian literary science and with an attempt of it’s multiple contextualization, both literary-historical and typological.The analysis deals with the characteristics of the heroine and with the author’s narrative practices by which main character is shaped. It is shown that the other characters in the novel, policy of their dialogues and narrative flows are directed towards better and more comprehensive revelation of the main character. It is also shown that the author made sure that the speech concerning gender representation and emancipatory process is one of the dominant narrative discourse of the novel. The paper then examines the main plot of the novel and its central narrative thread: finding happiness in love and trying to define place of male-female relationships in the construction of personality. All detected elements: characteristics of the main character, narrative flow,dialogue, reflection, the values​​that are highlighted such as freedom and happiness,identity, security, and presentation of socialization, daily living and anthropocentrism,and in particular the completion of the novel which is fixed in happy marriage, are leading to a possible classification of this novel in the group of Bildungsroman. To this end, paper analyzes the characteristics of this type of novel and compared them with Young Girl’s Novel, in order to demonstrate the extent to which this work can be defined as a novel of this type. In this way, Young Girl’s Novel novel is contextualised within both Serbian and European literature, and paper is also trying to review possible line of tradition that includes the work of Draga Gavrilović.

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