Изгнанство у породични круг: Град и кућа Наталије Гинзбург и Мамац Давида Албахарија
Exile Within the Family Circle: The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg and The Bait by David Albahari

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a comparative reading of the novels La città e la casa (1984) by Natalia Ginzburg and Bait (1996) by David Albahari, focusing on the notion of exile within the family circle and on narrative strategies through which the subject is constituted in conditions of loss, absence, and fragmentation. Drawing on theoretical insights by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, the paper demonstrates how family history and the relationship with parental figures become crucial sites for negotiating identity in both texts. The epistolary structure in Ginzburg’s novel and the narrative mediated through a recorded maternal voice and memory in Albahari’s work reveal storytelling as a space where absence and loss become the very conditions of narration. In these novels, the family does not appear as a stable foundation but rather as a paradoxical space of belonging and exile, within which the subject attempts − through writing − to reconstruct origin, memory, and identity. Literature thus emerges as a privileged space for preserving traces of disappearance and as a symbolic attempt to return to a lost familial and historical world.

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