Elements of Comedy as the Means of Literary Presentation in Autobiography – on Others by Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz Cover Image

Елементи комике као средство литераризације у Аутобиографији о другима Борислава Михајловића Михиза
Elements of Comedy as the Means of Literary Presentation in Autobiography – on Others by Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz

Author(s): Vladan Bajčeta
Subject(s): Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: autobiography;memoirs;autofiction;picaresque hero;satire;pastiche;humour;parody;caricature;burlesque;

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the generic categorization of Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz’s legacy work Autobiography – on Others and observing its complex genealogical characteristics, this paper examines one of the basic forms of the defamiliarization of writer’s memories – the use of comic techniques. The author’s personal and professional biography and the political and cultural history of his age add up to an aggregate of various anecdotes and testimonies, which needed a certain cohesive factor for the purpose of the artistic homogenization. Apart from the uniform stylistic presentation and the chronological and thematic classification of the material, the comic techniques serve as a conspicuous method of shaping this material and as the author’s consistent manner of literary presentation.

  • Issue Year: 49/2017
  • Issue No: 161
  • Page Range: 277-296
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian