Фантастичното като място на балканския междулитературен диалог
The Fantastic as a Place of the Balkan Inter-Literary Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The study is divided into several thematic cores, which consistently consider, argue, and analyze the idea of the fantastic as a place of Balkan inter-literary dialogue. The intercultural contacts in the Balkans and the problem related to the topic of the Balkan identity are presented. The idea of dialogues in literature is discussed, and the fundamental theories of dialogism in the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Martin Buber are presented. In addition, the founding concept of Nikola Georgiev’s “silent dialogues” is introduced. The study outlines the specifics of each national context (Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian) with an emphasis on fantastic discourse. Similar motifs and archetypal symbols, united by the genre of the fantastic, are analyzed. The authors whose novels were used for the study are Agop Melkonyan, Goran Tribuson, Zoran Živković and Boban Knežević.

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