MODELOVANJE PROSTORNIH STRUKTURA POD UTICAJEM PROCESA KARNEVALIZACIJE U BULATOVIĆEVOM ROMANU HEROJ NA MAGARCU
MODELING OF SPACIAL STRUCTURES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROCESS OF CARNIVALISATION IN THE NOVEL WRITTEN BY MIODRAG BULATOVIC HEROJ NA MAGARCU (A Hero on a Donkey)

Summary/Abstract: The process of carnivalization is typical for the prose of Miodrag Bulatovic. An ingenious combination of divine and non-divine, incorporating everything that non-carnival order alienates, embodied in a special carnival category - carnival misalliances, is established as a basic principle in the construction of all elements of narrative structure of the novel Heroj na magarcu (A Hero on a Donkey). The reality of the narrative is organized by the principles of Menippean satire and is, mainly, realized through the ceremony, parade, scenes of scandals, inappropriate speech, and outbursts of various types. The main scene where the most massive celebrations take place is the town square in Bijelo Polje that has a role of the truecarnivalsquare. The scene of carnival games and mass celebrations in small, rutted and formless square of occupied Montenegrin town in the narrative completely depict the basic carnival categories. Besides the square, as the central place, two smaller special structures also create semantic burden in the novel Maliceva jazbina (Malić’s lair) i Kraljičin nužnik (Queen’s privy). Malić’s lair, in of the main character, is designed as an ideal place for the elimination of all cultural constraints and limitations, and the modeling of the characters in such a place is largely uncultivated, instinctive and animal. Queen’s privy by grotesque combination of its primary purpose and divine function becomes and represents almost an ideal carnival space and celebrations that happen within it are purely of carnival character. Spatial structures as a powerful organizing centers around which a complex non spatial meanings are formed, in the novel Heroj na magarcu, bear a specific semantic burden and have powerful disintegration effect in the novel.

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