Женската Одисея в два балкански романа: Пресрещане от Габриела Адамещяну и Министерство на болката от Дубравка Угрешич
The Female Odyssey in Two Balkan Novels: Gabriela Adameșteanu’s The Meeting and Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Ministry of Pain

Summary/Abstract: This article examines two Balkan novels in which memories, as fragments woven into the textual fabricof the autobiographical, define the museum-like narrative structure. The focus of the comparative analysis is onthe female voice, which dynamises the museum as a “place of memory” in the novel through the war theme. Byreplacing the lost home with a kind of a mobile ‘museum-novel’ (as a specific type of novel, the genre of exile),writers such as Gabriela Adameșteanu (Romania) and Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatia) problematize the image ofthe waiting woman Penelope, transforming their novels into a female Odyssey between personal and public,authentic and imaginary, past and present, continuity and discontinuity, myth and history.

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