SILYAN’S FLY BEYOND THE VOID: ANALYSIS OF GORAN STEFANOVSKI’S BLACK HOLE Cover Image

ЛЕТОТ НА СИЛЈАН НАД ПОНОРОТ НА НЕБИДНИНАТА: АНАЛИЗА НА ЦРНА ДУПКА ОД ГОРАН СТЕФАНОВСКИ
SILYAN’S FLY BEYOND THE VOID: ANALYSIS OF GORAN STEFANOVSKI’S BLACK HOLE

Author(s): Despina Angelovska
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Cultural Essay, Drama
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Goran Stefanovski; Black hole; poetics of modern drama; rhapsodic form; intertextuality; deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses Black Hole, one of the most emblematic and complex plays of Goran Stefanovski, written in 1987 and announcing the end of an era – the fall of communism and war in ex-Yugoslavia. The play rereads the story of “Siljan the Stork” by Marko Cepenkov, resetting its initiatory talein the context of agonising socialism. Deconstructing the initial teleological and didactic matrix of the story, the play questions the sense of its redemptive ending in the context of a post-ideological and devastated world. The paper further considers the rupture marked by Stefanovski’s dramaturgy in regard to the traditional normative concept of drama. The play’s hybrid and open form, which constantly reinvents and deconstructs itself, is approached as representative of a new “rhapsodic” poetics of modern contemporary drama.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 76
  • Page Range: 89-110
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Macedonian