ВЕЛИКИ РАТ АЛЕКСАНДРА ГАТАЛИЦЕ КАО ПОСТМОДЕРНИ РОМАН
THE GREAT WAR OF ALEKSANDAR GATALICA AS A POSTMODERN NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we review the genre definition of the historic novel, which has evolved from the Romanticism up to the Postomodernism, as well as the most important Serbian prose writers of this genre; then, we point to the difference of Gatalica’s novel from the common war discourse. Unlike his famous predecessors who describe the war from the point of view of its participants, Gatalica clearly points out to the metatextual character of the war narrative, which is represented in the form of questioning, banal paradoxes and deconstruction. Istead of facing us with the hero who acts on great ideas and noble feeling, Gatalica presents the characters who act on competition, selfishness, hatred to the other and greed. The author accepts the poetics of postmodern literature, which does not treat the classical concepts of truth, reason, identity and objectivity, great narration and definite explanations, and continually questions all these concepts.

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