ОДРИЦAЊЕ ОД ПРAВИЛA У ИМЕ УНУТAРЊE СЛОБОДЕ У РОМAНИМA БРОЗДAНЕ ОЛУЈИЋ
DENYING THE RULES IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM IN GROZDANA OLUJIĆ’S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses Grozdana Olujic’s novels from the 1960s, their contradictory reception and innovations they bring. The novels precisely describe the feeling of the world among the young in a socialist/postwar society: insecurity, rebelliousness and rudeness, search for identity through questioning the truths which had been served to them and refusal to obey them. Instead, the heroes „vote for love” and personal freedom, they leave their sterile environments, familes that make them unhappy and refuse to live as „bureaucrat rats”, „ants in the race for money”. The novels radicalize the issue of internal freedom of an individual, often with the elements of existentialism: the heroine of Wild Seed (Divlje Seme), a war orphan without identity, accepts her status as absolute freedom while the heroine of the novel Don’t Wake the Sleeping Dogs (Ne budi zaspale pse) commits suicide in that name. The novelistic prose of Grozdana Olujic is decisive for the appearance of the Serbian literature for the young. Directing the novelistic prose to the completely new topics and identity crises of the young points to the need for its new reading and reevaluation.

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