Актуализација Достојевског у опусу савременог српског писца
THE REACTUALIZATION OF DOSTOEVSKY IN THE OPUS OF A CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN WRITER

Summary/Abstract: In his two novels Klopka (The Trap) and Fraktura (The Fracture), the contemporary Serbian writer Nenad Teofilović consistently establishes an intertextual dialogue with the work of F. M. Dostoevsky—both of Teofilović’s novels can be read as a fictional interpretation of his great predecessor’s ideas. We pointed out conceptual, thematic, and structural parallels but also those concerning atmosphere and characterization between The Trap and Crime and Punishment, as well as Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Double. Teofilović’s protagonist completes the transformation from Raskolnikov to Stavrogin and ends his negative character arc as the torn and duplicated Golyadkin. On the other hand, The Fracture modernizes Notes from the Underground by examining well-known questions from Dostoevsky’s early novel, primarily the possibility of existence and the precondition for freedom and happiness, the role of reason in this process, and finally, the essence of human beings. The protagonist of The Fracture, just like his literary ancestor, names insecurity and capriciousness as the key human qualities that progress is trying to eradicate in the name of eventual happiness on earth. Although in different ways, both protagonists are maladjusted, and they tell the diagnoses of their times, all while resisting the path of progress and the price that humankind is paying for it.

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