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Време и судбина
Time and Destiny

Author(s): Mileta Aćimović Ivkov
Subject(s): Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: biography;time;text;meaning;memory;history;creative process;experience;story;fiction;

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to recognize and offer a general definition and description of the manner in which historical elements are represented and brought to life in Svetlana Velmar-Janković’s fiction, as well as those tying into her biography and experience. The paper also describes how, within Velmar-Janković’s creative process,her desire to reshape history fictionally, partially overrides the attempt to offer a credible testimony of the historical truth and her personal life’s truth – to be precise,how in her fiction storytelling and the universalization of experience gain a privileged ontological status.

  • Issue Year: 45/2013
  • Issue No: 151
  • Page Range: 785-793
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian