INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE PROSE OF DRAGOSLAV MIHAJLOVIĆ

Abstract

By using representative examples from Dragoslav Mihailović’s novels Petrijin venac, Treće proleće and Kad su cvetale tikve and interpreting their narrative processes, extratextual elements and correlations, the paper aims to explore the aesthetic function of the socio-political circumstances transposed into the artistic world of the novels. It is through these peculiarities of Mihajlović’s writings and the employment of the principles of non-fiction and neorealism that communication with the reader is established. In this way, referencing real localities, languages, ideas and historic events performs its poetic function.