Рефлекси аутентичног искуства у збиркама приповедака Прилично мртви и Пристаништа Владана Матијевића
Reflections of Authentic Experience in Collections of Vladan Matijevićʾs Short Stories Fairly Dead and Piers

Summary/Abstract: This paper, above all, deals with the question of authenticity of the protagonists in two collections of Vladan Matijević’s short stories “Fairly Dead” and “Piers.” When we speak of authenticity and inauthenticity it is in regards to the notions of freedom and lack thereof, as reflected in the relationships between the protagonists and the world around them, along the lines of the philosophy of existentialism. The matters of conventions and the playing of roles are at the forefront of the philosophy as well as the literature of the Twentieth and the Twenty-first century. The questions of the authentic and the inauthentic experience are pertinent not only to the protagonists who belong to the literary-historical context of the Twenty-first century, but to all protagonists who operate on the plane of conflict between the self and the world around them. Therefore, the subject of this paper will be the nature of authenticity and inauthenticity of the protagonists of Vladan Matijević’s short stories, as they relate to the types of authenticity and inauthenticity of the protagonists in the works of writers who brough these questions to their final consequence, such as Dostoyevsky, Camus, Kafka, as well as Veljko Milićević and Branimir Šćepanović. In that regard, this paper also deals with the literary categories of freedom, vitality and adaptability (categories that are often at odds with one another), as well as the narrative’s potential for the grotesque.

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