ПУТОВАЊЕ КРОЗ ВРЕМЕ КАО ИНСТРУМЕНТ КЛАСНИХ И НАЦИОНАЛНИХ ПРЕОКУПАЦИЈА У Х. Џ. ВЕЛСОВОЈ НОВЕЛИ ВРЕМЕПЛОВ И ПРИЧИ РАВНОДУШНОСТ ЦРВЕНОГ СУНЦА МИОДРАГА Б. МИЛОВАНОВИЋА
TIME-TRAVEL AS THE INSTRUMENT OF CLASS AND NATIONAL PREOCCUPATIONS IN H. G. WELLS’ NOVELLA THE TIME MACHINE AND IN THE STORY “THE UNCARING OF THE RED SUN” BY MIODRAG B. MILOVANOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes national and class aspects of H. G. Wells’ Time Machine (1895) and “The Indifference of the Red Sun” (“Ravnodušnost crvenog Sunca”, 1996) by Mio- drag B. Milovanović. Despite the difference in critical acclaim (by which Milovanović remains a fairly minor author, for now) both works employ the time-travel theme, and both explore (different) socio-historical concerns. By projecting the late Victorian social class stratification into his vision of the far future, Wells probes the problem of (future) class struggle. Within a theoretical and methodological framework partly based on Frederic Jameson’s elaboration of the concept of class struggle, the paper goes to show how Wells’ pessimism as to the (future) upshot of the Victorian class system springs from an anxiety about the future which might just do away with class struggle, leading not only to the loss of class identity, but to the annihilation of humanity itself: he utopian state leads to absence of conflict, which in turn results in the lack of identity. Focusing on the Serbian story, the paper than pinpoints the literary and historical foundations on which Miodrag B. Milovanović built his fictional experiment in alternative national history of the Serbian people.

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