THROUGH THE FORESTS OF HISTORY WITH THE BINOCULARS OF FICTION

Abstract

Starting from the premise about the actuality of the interdiscursive relations between literature and history in the contemporary Macedonian novel, the purpose of this text is to elaborate and confirm that thesis through the interpretation of the novel Marko Krale by the Macedonian author Slobodan Mickovic. The theoretical framework of the research is related to the concepts of Brian McHale's postmodernist revisionist historical novel that will be interpretatively applied to Mickovic's novel. The interpretive focus is placed on the epistemological and ontological themes and the narrative procedures (intertextuality as dominant) through which those themes are articulated in the novel.

Кеywords: postmodernist revisionist historical novel; intertextuality; Macedonian novel; Slobodan Mickovik.