Czas i pamięć w dramacie "Razodetja" Dušana Jovanovicia
Time and memory in Dušan Jovanović’s play "Revelations"

Author(s): Mateja Pezdirc Bartol
Subject(s): Cultural history, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Dušan Jovanović; Revelations; Razodetja; modern Slovene drama; dramatic time; dramatic form; memory
Summary/Abstract: In content and form, Dušan Jovanović’s play "Razodetja" ("Revelations") continues, adds to, paraphrases, comments on and quotes the author’s previous works, especially "Karamazovi" ("The Karamazovs") and "Balkanska trilogija" ("Balkan Trilogy"). The play is the author’s reckoning with his own dramatic writings, with himself, and with historical events before and after the fall of Yugoslavia. A central question is how to encompass in dramatic form a family saga and more than fifty years of Yugoslav and Slovene history, mediated through fragments of memory. "Razodetja" interweaves the past, present and future, the social and the intimate, the here and the there, the documentary and the fictional. This enables the author to take a critical perspective and comment (ironically) on social systems and sociopolitical events, as well as to portray the fates of dramatic characters decisively marked by their time and place.

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