ДЕЦЕНТРИРАЊЕ МЕДИЈАТОРА У ПРИЧАМА КОЈЕ СУ ИЗГУБИЛЕ РАВНОТЕЖУ СТАНИСЛАВА ВИНАВЕРА
DECENTRING THE MEDIATOR IN THE STORIES THAT HAVE LOST THEIR BALANCE BY STANISLAV VINAVER

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses stories with mythological basis from Stanislav Vinaver’s short stories collection The Stories That Have Lost Their Balance (1913). The aim of the paper is to indicate the ways in which Vinaver – in a modernist manner – varies and resemanticises mythological patterns. We focus on the mediator figure (Prometheus, Astyanax, Niobe, Netibor) and different possibilities of establishing a relation with other functional elements of mythical narration. In reference to the traditional myth and its Hero, this relation is in each case highly problematic – the (“twisted”) mediation is always problematically established. In the four of the examined stories (Prometheus, Astyanax, Niobe, Netibor) the reader witnesses four different possibilities of decentring the Hero’s mediatory role. Bearing in mind that in a myth the balance is accomplished through a successful mediation (which, even though just illusory, harmonises the conflict and creates the cosmic order), we come to the conclusion that in Vinaver’s stories with mythical figures as protagonists the aspect of losing the balance lies primarily on violating the communication between representatives of binary oppositions. Destabilisation of mediation is examined as a moment of modernist revaluation and innovation of traditional models.

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