Goran Petrović’s Storytelling Masterpiece

Bajčeta, Vladan (2025) Goran Petrović’s Storytelling Masterpiece. In: Decades after : Serbian literature 1991-2021 : collection of essays. Belgrade : Faculty of filology ; Novi Sad : Academic book, pp. 193-212. ISBN 978-86-6153-771-4

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Abstract

A great number of critical texts, studies and reviews have been written about one of the most respected contemporary Serbian writers, and in most cases they followed a kind of axiological inertia. Namely, in valuing some of Petrović’s works, critics have so far mostly overlooked some of his greatest literary achievements, specifically his stories, in favor of his novelistic works. Goran Petrović indeed perfected certain postmodernist tendencies in his novels „Sitničarnica 'Kod srećne ruke'" and „Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa”, but it is in the stories and novelettes found in the collection „Razlike” that we find some of his best prose, which simultaneously hints at some new poetic tendencies in contemporary Serbian literature. With a literary interest in (national) history, Petrović’s works span a timeframe from the legacy of Byzantium to the Yugoslav era. It is during the latter period that Serbian history experienced one of its greatest internal changes, and the final stage of that era has admirably been given artistic shape in „Razlike”.

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