Original scientific paper
The grotesque-fantastic as a literary approach in shaping the characters of Miodrag Bulatović’s short fiction (The Devils Are Coming and The Wolf and Bell)
Marijana Terić
; Nikšić, Crna Gora
Abstract
In this essay the author examines the fiction of one of the most significant Montenegrin authors of the second half of the twentieth century, Miodrag Bulatović. As a modern Yugoslav writer, Miodrag Bulatović destabilized narrative conventions with elements of the fantastic and the grotesque, by which he estranged the world of the literary text. By examining the image of the world in the collection of short stories The Devils Are Coming and The Wolf and bell, we will explain the use of the grotesque and the fantastic and their functions in the portrayal of the heroes, who are made into wild and deranged people, people of low passions and drives, antiheroes, negative protagonists, bearers of dark and demonic powers, rebels and “the wretched people”.
We conclude that Bulatović as an author has constructed a distinctive world of phantasmagoric visions and has modelled characters who are carnivalesque, grotesque, and tragic, inhabiting a topsy-turvy universe poised at the edge of hell.
Keywords
antiheroes; devils; the fantastic; the grotesque; topsy-turvy world
Hrčak ID:
247747
URI
Publication date:
13.12.2020.
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