SATIRICAL SUBTEXT OF THE NOVEL BY GOJKO CELEBIC THE CITY CLUB Cover Image

САТИРИЧНИ ПОДТЕКСТ РОМАНА ГОЈКА ЧЕЛЕБИЋА CITY CLUB
SATIRICAL SUBTEXT OF THE NOVEL BY GOJKO CELEBIC THE CITY CLUB

Author(s): Sofija Kalezić-Đuričković
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Montenegrine Literature, Philology
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: novel; postmodernism;satire; war;false; doom;indifference

Summary/Abstract: In the work Satirical subtext of the novel by Gojko Celebic “The City Club” Sophia Kalezic -Djurickovic writes about the elements of irony, satire and the grotesque in the novel of this famous Montenegrian writer. Celebić is the author of eight collections of short stories and ten novels, including the particularly important role in his creative development with the realization - Waves of the Atlantic, The killing of A. G. V. and prosecution, Pseudo, The City Club and The Twins. The novel The City Club in the writer’s work occupies a particularly important place in terms of modernity procedure, skillfully modeled heroes and anti-war message. The City Club is the fun club in the territory torn by civil war, but also an allegory of the entire former Yugoslavia marked by a wave of fratricidal carnage. The heroes are described in the world of violence, drugs and sex, deprived of their basic values, the relationship between East and West - are some of the themes of this book. In his novel The City Club can be seen and the destruction of the mythical world, and his transformation of the end of a great collective illusion.

  • Issue Year: XV/2014
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 131-138
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian