KATALOGIZACIJE SEĆANJA KAO TEHNIKE PRIPOVEDANJA SOPSTVA (Dž. D. Selindžer, Simor: uvod i Vladimir Tasić, Oproštajni dar)
CATALOGIZATIONS OF MEMORIES AS TECHNIQUES OF NARRATING SELVES

Summary/Abstract: This work deals with a comparative analysis of two late texts created in different time periods which are analogically very close: a short prosaic composition Seymour: An Introduction by David J. Salinger, and the novel Farewell Gift by Vladimir Tasić. The narrative compositions are thematically and technically very close: the narrators use a commemorative tone in order to solve the mysterious biography of their deceased brothers. Similar citations from these texts are used in this work in order to show the way in which the chosen narrators use techniques of cataloging memories in order to establish a certain new self in a world following the death of a loved one. The goal is to represent very authentic but also in certain points very similar narrative methods in which memories are managed towards a construction of the self, and not the explication of the essence of the unspecified otherness which can be anticipated in the course of the text’s development. The joy of writing one’s selfness, the cataloging and ordering of memories becomes the essence of the text instead of potentially expected narrative plot resolving.

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