GENEZA NARATIVNIH ŽANROVA U VREMENU ČUDA BORISLAVA PEKIĆA
GENESIS OF NARRATIVE GENRES IN BORISLAV PEKIĆ'S TIME OF MIRACLES

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the complexity of the problem of typological definition of The Time of Miracles by Borislav Pekić, which is reflected not only in artistic process of destabilisation of traditional genres (short story, novel, etc.), author`s suggestions in form of subtitle, two-sided metatextual chaining of smaller, independent narratives within the book as a system of a higher order (in relation to biblical-mythical patterns of prototext, and in relation to its own text), but also as a kind of an evolutional perspective of narrative genres in the second half of the twentieth century. By reconstructing the biblical cultural model, Pekić changes the perception of reading the New-testament stories, and enriches his own text with metaprose character. That way, The Time of Miracles becomes hybrid, multi-genre text which can be read and interpreted on more levels. Bearing in mind that the meaning of complete Pekić's work is based on Biblical contextualisation, Mikhail Bakhtin's theory was used in this work to question the dialogism of Time of Miracles with the Bible, as well as the possibility of its potentional understanding within the development line of menippean satire. Considering that the thematic focus of mennipea is the questioning of validity of some idea or axiology, the same intention can easily be recognised in the allegoric potentials of Time of Miracles, which have already enlightened the analogue connection with the 20th century totalitarian ideologies.

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