Satira u pripovetkama Radoja Domanovića

Abstract

By analyzing four representative short stories by Radoje Domanović (Leader, The Stigma, Abolition of Passions, and Dead Sea), the paper marks some of the critical points of his entire poetics and, generally, presents the era of Serbian realism. Placing Domanović’s allegorical and satirical methods in the epicenter of the realist period depicts the sociopolitical proscenium of Serbia at the time and the criticized ruling system (of the Obrenović Dynasty and the Serbian Radical Party headed by Pašić), striving to pinpoint and, in as much detail as possible, examine the state’s “ailments” – the material in Domanović’s satires. Each of the above short stories marks one key point – the parabolic nature of the Leader, the carnivalization potential in The Stigma, the religious subtext of the Abolition of Passions, and the novelistic episodic nature of the Dead Sea – to indicate the wide range of Domanović’s writerly undertones.