Chance and Trauma: on the Prose of Veselin Marković
Abstract
The paper analyses Veselin Marković’s prose works in the light of his obsessive themes of chance and trauma, which are the most common plot triggers in his stories. We use as the starting point for the interpretation of the literary work of Marković, the author of studies on Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov, his assumptions regarding the prose of the two great authors. In addition to the collections of short stories: What Those Who Die in Their Sleep Miss (Šta propuste oni koji umru u snu, 1993), The Advantages of the Circle (Preimućstva kruga, 2001) and The Past Never Goes Away (Prošlost nikad ne prođe, 2017), the main interpretive focus is on the novels Emergence (Izranjanje, 2001) and We, the Different (Mi, različiti 2010). In his second novel, the Marković reached the highest expression of his creative endeavours, and the issue of chance was considered as a different phenomenon in the natural as opposed to the social context. Some attention is devoted to Marković’s travelogue Light on the Water (Svetlost na vodi, 2015) as well, with which the author made a significant contribution to this subgenre of prose in Serbian.
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