CONCEPTUAL POSITION AS A COMPOSITION PRINCIPLE IN REMNANTS OF THE WORLD BY IGOR MAROJEVIĆ

Abstract

This paper deals with different types of point of view as a composition principle in Marojević’s novel “Remnants of the World” in the light of Boris Uspensky’s theory. The novel tells us about the 20th century, “the age of the holocaust”, about Jasenovac, Srebrenica, the Spanish Civil War, Bleiburg, the bombing of Serbia, about suffering and life, all of that being told from the point of view of several protagonists, among which the pivotal and all-encompassing one is the protagonist/narrator, M.I. The narrators continuously replace one another, handing over to one another the pieces of the story time. Various aspects and dynamics of the storytelling that resulted from the continuous exchange of the narrators, inevitably and hurriedly dissolves residual remnants of the world.