AВAНГAРДНИ POMAH БЕЗ РОМAНA
AVANT-GARDE NOVEL WITHOUT A NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the positions of the novel in the Serbian literature from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the paper analyses the activities related to the establishment of a specific novel genre/sub-genre — the short novel in the period of avant-garde (1920s). The notion avant-garde novel is primarily related to the prose achievements of those authors who belonged to specific avant-garde movements or whose narrative strategies and poetic standpoints directly originated from the avant- garde poetics or were related to it. As the key ones, the paper singles out the issues of determination of the length of the short novel and its structural features, like experimental form (merging of genres, narration, composition, montage, intertextuality), awareness of its literary quality and lyrical nature. Between the short story and the traditional, longer novel, whose conventions were disputed and rejected, the short novel became an ideal avant-garde prose form for the study and development of new narrative techniques and expression of auto-poetic opinions. By its morphological diversity, the short novel of the 1920s significantly influenced the extension and complexity of the expressive possibilities of the novel in the Serbian literature from the previous century.

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