Spațiul trăit ca determinant al relațiilor umane în romanul „Dervișul si moartea” de Meša Selimović
The Space Lived as a Determinant of Human Relationships in the Novel “Death and the Dervish” by Meša Selimović

Summary/Abstract: The problematic of space and character has been of constant interest to us and, along the way, we have approached the subject of both space and literary character in different studies. Now we wish to underline the connection existing between the space of the text and the characters of Meša Selimović’s novel, “Death and the Dervish.The idea of proxemics, which deals with the study of the correlations between the two major categories of the literary text, namely the text and the characters, when applied to literature, such a privileged space of the imaginary, serves to prove that, within the text, the characters are self-constructed according to their available playing space, whereas the space has its own specific characteristics and is symbolic only if perceived as such by the same character. Space is a place of experiences, of encountering the other, both in a private and a social setting. Obviously, such an analysis is not exhaustive, it is only one step, but a step that offers possibilities and opens the way towards surprising analyses. We have always been tempted by this subject primarily because the issue of space and time continues to attract and provoke, as proven over the years by the multitude of published works and conferences on the chronotope.

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