ГЕОПОЕТИКА ТРАУМЕ У РОМАНУ КАРОТА ДАРКА ТУШЕВЉАКОВИЋА
GEOPOETHICS OF TRAUMA IN THE NOVEL KAROTA BY DARKO TUŠEVLJAKOVIC

Summary/Abstract: The research intention of this paper is to analyze the geopoetics of trauma in the novel Karota with a special focus on Zadar as a space of a problematic past, and therefore the psychic disintegration of the narrator Davor. The aim is to show, by combining and symbolic reading of contemporary theories of geopoetics, psychoanalysis and narrative trauma, how the space of Zadar in the novel is constructed as an existential and psychic landscape of repressed contents. Through such an observation, the mutual conditionality of spatial experience, geography and trauma becomes and remains important. Applying the theoretical insights of Gaston Bachelard, Paul Ricoeur, Doreen Massey, Kevin White, Yi-Fu Tuan and others, the paper shows how the topography of the city functions as a mental map, as a materialization of repressed contents and unconscious trauma. Spaces in the novel, such as the Zadar music school, the studio, the house on Pašman, the fountain and the forest, represent certain nodes of traumatic memory. The literary hero’s return to Zadar becomes a kind of process of psychic archaeology through which Davor reconstructs, fills in and discovers the truth about himself, Karota and his own past, and therefore the paper will analyze in detail the main traumatic nodes of the novel. The geography of the Zadar area is shown not as a neutral narrative background, but as an active structure that conditions, initiates and shapes the traumatic narrative.

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