Poetics of Provocation in Đuro Đukanov’s Novel Devil’s Dream Cover Image

Поетика провокације у роману Ђаволска сневачина Ђуре Ђуканова
Poetics of Provocation in Đuro Đukanov’s Novel Devil’s Dream

Author(s): Milan D. Vurdelja
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Đura Đukanov; Devil’s dream; provocation; subversion in literature; counterculture; countercultural hero.

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this research is one of the most prominent novels of Đura Đukanov (1956-2000) – Devil’s dream. The area of scientific interest that has been activated by the title of this paper is highly diverse. Therefore, the author promotes unifying modes for the interpretation of Đukanov’s prose. One of these modes is, certainly, poetics of provocation, which is discussed in this paper from a sty­listic, aesthetic, and even political point of view. The results of this research may lead to a new positioning of Đukanov’s opus in the context of late modernism in Serbian literature.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 471-487
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian