СЛИКА АМЕРИКЕ У РОМАНУ ДАН ШЕСТИ РАСТКА ПЕТРОВИЋА
An image of America in the novel The Sixth Day by Rastko Petrović

Summary/Abstract: In the essay An image of America in the novel The Sixth Day by Rastko Petrović, the identity of the new world of America is being researched through the identity of the hero Stevan Papa-Katić. A base for the research is represented by a motive of constituting of the hero’s identity during the war developments. However, an influence of the ancestors on the constituting of the hero’s identity and an influence of „the spanless forces“ were considered, too. A special attention was dedicated to the function of mythic, respectively archetypal layers that appear in the novel. Speaking of the hero’s identity, a question of advent of the modern subject’s disintegration is being initiated, which was the basic characteristic of the Serbian avant-garde literature. Individual and collective unconscious through “a mirror duplication” of the images that are present in many places in the novel The Sixth Day, is being explained through the image of America. The image of America is being explained through the hero’s perspective and through his experience of America which raises the question of the foreigner in the novel and the experience of the foreigner in America. However, since the image of America is shown from the stranger’s perspective, in it we recognize an image of utopia, or an image of a non-place. Therefore America remains a (non) space beyond geographical and terrestrial coordinates. America remains non-place!

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