СИНОНИМНИТЕ ЛИКОВИ ВО РОМАНИТЕ НА ВЕНКО АНДОНОВСКИ
The Synonymous Characters in Venko Andonovski’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a comparative investigation of the specifics of the characters with identical semantic fields, i.e. the synonymous characters (characters-synonyms) in four novels by the Macedonian author Venko Andonovski. They are the synonymous characters in the following novels: The Alphabet for the Disobedient (1994), The Navel of the World (2000), The Witch (2006) and The Daughter of the Mathematician (2013). The starting position in the elaboration of the proposed thesis on the existence of synonymous characters in the four novels is Andonovski’s latest novel titled The Daughter of the Mathematician from whose aspect the equivalent attributes (semes) of the specific characters in the different novels by the same author are analyzed. The comparative analysis shows that the different novels by Andonovski contain a lot of characters with identical semantic fields, such as the character of Father Eftimij (from the novel The Alphabet for the Disobedient), Father Stefan Pismorodec (from the novel The Navel of the World), the chief inquisitor (from the novel The Witch) and Alvaro Muertes (from The Daughter of the Mathematician). These four characters in the four novels by Andonovski show a high degree of parallelism in their semantic fields and in their narrative programs, and the novels by this author abound in such examples, which is illustrated with a review table presented in this paper. The conclusion of the paper emphasizes that the essence of this narrative procedure encompasses the idea of rebellion, of independence, of nonconformity of literary characters, and that this new, autonomous life of the characters is only a confirmation of the universal conceptual thread in the novels by Venko Andonovski, and that is the primordial human longing for immortality, for freedom, for self-discovery, for the opportunity to create their own life (their own fate) according to their wishes.

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