Fantastika u Gogoljevim i Glišićevim pripovijetkama
The Fantastic in the Stories of Gogolj and Glišić

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper will be, through a parallel reading of the corpus of Gogol’s and Glišić’s short stories, to highlight certain parallelisms between them, in order to consider the thesis about Gogol’s influence on Glišić’s work. In doing so, we will focus primarily on possible coincidences in terms of characters, as well as narrative, stylistic, and plot aspects. This work will be dedicated to the comparison and consideration of folklore tradition in short stories in the context of realism, that is, in an era in which the fantastic nevertheless finds its place in the short stories of these writers with the help of the phenomenon of the unexplainable for semantic intensification and ironic representation of the social dissolution of class relations. Folk fantasy was undoubtedly an inexhaustible source of themes and motifs for these writers. To begin with, we will look briefly at Gogol’s fantasy and its influence on Glišić’s work, its structure, characteristics, and the specific way in which supernatural beings exist in the stories. Then we proceed with a comparative analysis, specifically, with a parallel interpretation of Glišić’s and Gogol’s stories.

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