A SHORT HISTORY OF ABUNDANCE - A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN NOVEL Cover Image

A SHORT HISTORY OF ABUNDANCE - A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN NOVEL
A SHORT HISTORY OF ABUNDANCE - A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN NOVEL

Author(s): Tihomir Brajović
Contributor(s): Jovanka Kalaba (Translator)
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Contemporary Serbian novel; Serbian literary language; 1980s–2000s; discontinuity; change; re-examination of values; identity crisis; fin-de-siècle; decadence; disintegration of old systems;

Summary/Abstract: The term “contemporary Serbian novel”, which is used in the subtitle of this essay, refers quite precisely to novelistic works written in the Serbian literary language and published in the last two decades, i.e. from the end of the eighties of the twentieth century until today, in the interval which in manifold ways, as we have seen in the example of lyric poetry, means discontinuity and change.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 6-7
  • Page Range: 161-187
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: English
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