Motiv lutke u delima Elene Ferante
The Doll Motif in the Works of Elena Ferrante

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an analysis of the doll motif in the works of Elena Ferrante. It`s primary goal is to acknowledge the subversive potential of these literary figures in interpreting female relationships represented in Ferrante`s novels such as The Lost Daughter and My Brilliant Friend, as well as in her children`s book The Beach at Night. The meaning of dolls is usually connected to trash and poetics of abjection and it affects some of the main literary aspects of Ferrante’s works (composition, narration, etc.). These figures are characterized by their liminal elements, their connection to trash, as well as abjection which allows them the potential to break binary structures and hierarchies these female relationships are based on. Throughout the paper it will be shown that these relationships vary from a mother-daughter relationship in a poststructuralistic key, the paradigm of the symbolic mother and, at times, even very conservative stands on structuring female relationships. The analysis is mostly based on the works of the second wave theorists such as Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

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