ВЛАДА УРОШЕВИЌ КАКО РАСКАЖУВАЧ
VLADA UROSHEVIKJ AS A STORYTELLER

Summary/Abstract: Vlada Uroshevikj is considered to be an author “who can see the invisible in the deep guts of the visible world” (Jacques Gaucheron). Ever since the publication of his first short stories at the beginning of the 1960s, Uroshevikj has been identified by our literary critics as an untypical figure in the Macedonian narrative universe, probably due to the fact that his narrative is much more in tune with the legacy of the European literary (art) tendencies than with the prevailing national constellations. In other words, in Macedonian literature, Uroshevikj is presented more as a cosmopolitan than a national author. He is an author of several books of short stories: Sign (1963 in Serbian, 1969 in Macedonian), The Night Coach (1972), The Hunt for Unicorns (1983), My cousin Emilia: “18 closed short stories that make an open novel” (1994), The Seventh Side of the Dice (2010) and Secret Missions (2013). This study tries to elaborate on the following issues: the typological constants and the stylistic innovations of the author, his lasting interest in the miraculous and the fantastic, the unusual and the inexplicable, his belief in the dream and the mystery, his fascination with the so-called “stories of atmosphere” and the magic of the surreal, his readiness to experiment with narrative procedures and certain new forms and techniques, etc.

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