ВЕЛИКА МАШКАРАДА ЗЛА У РОМАНУ ОД ОГЊЕНЕ ДО БЛАГЕ МАРИЈЕ
GREAT MASQUERADE OF EVIL IN THE NOVEL OD OGNJENE DO BLAGE MARIJE A SLANTED WORLDVIEW

Summary/Abstract: Jovan Radulović’s novel Od Ognjene do Blage Marije (From Fiery to Mild Marija) presents events from our recent history in a new and provocative manner - the fall of the town of Knin and The Republic of Srpska Krajina, as well as the expulsion of the entire Serbian population from its eight-century long hearth. While on the one hand it stands as the writer’s most radical approach in the presentation of horror of human suffering, on the other this novel reveals a surprising treasury of comic effects. The artistic functionality of the link between the serious and the laughable is enabled by the folk carnival feeling of the world, which actually gives the basic tone to the novel. Carnival is a principle the author used to create the ideological, semantic, stylistic, compositional and verbal plane of the novel. Festivity, representation of life turned upside down (mechanism of war), profanization, carnival ups and downs, mystifications and demystifications, naturalism of the social underground, antiheroism, grotesque, linking the unlinkable (wedding and funeral), heroes-masks (fools, sages, demons, monks, comedians), as well as the folk laugher, which relativizes or at least mitigates everything, are only some of the manifestations of the carnival on which this novel is based.

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