Odnos književnosti i društvene stvarnosti u prozi Mirka Kovača
Relationship between literature and social reality in Mirko Kovač’s prose

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author examines the relationship between literary creation and the social circumstances in which the prose of one of the most important writers of contemporary South Slavic literature was created. In doing so, the author points out the unique skills of Mirko Kovač to place a cultural and traditional world into the fictional literary space by reconstructing real historical events and engaging in literary play of different narrative strategies. Kovač’s world functions as a testimony of a time, which is given a symbolic and mythical dimension. In his narrative procedure, Kovač draws material from the social reality which surrounds him, processing and adapting it to the concept of text that is being born. This leads to duplication of fictional and mimetic, mythic and symbolic. Thus, modelling the material from one reality to another, Kovač engages in documentary discourse, aiming to snatch the work from the hands of the average reader.

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