WHERE IS THE SOURCE OF THE DELTA NOVEL? or AN INTRODUCTION TO GORAN PETROVIĆ’S ANGELOLOGY
WHERE IS THE SOURCE OF THE DELTA NOVEL? or AN INTRODUCTION TO GORAN PETROVIĆ’S ANGELOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Through the prism of the “delta novel” genre that Goran Petrović introduced in his two new novels Papir sa vodenim znakom (Paper with a Watermark) and Ikonostas sveg poznatog sveta (Iconostasis of the Known World), we look into the motifs of angels and angel feathers. These motifs establish a connection with Petrović’s previous works – the novels Atlas opisan nebom (An Atlas Traced by the Sky) and Opsada crkve Sv. Spasa (The Siege of the Church of Holy Salvation), the collection of short stories Bližnji (Our Close Ones), and notes in the book Pretraživač (The Search Engine). The different functions that these motifs have in the respective works are analyzed, and suggestions as to their role in the composition, and especially in providing the basic idea in these literary works are given. This paper makes an assumption that, through the motif of the angel and the feather, the source of the delta novel began even earlier in Petrović’s oeuvre.

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