“Black” or “realistic” prose – the controversy paradigm of literature and society
„Црна” или „стварносна” проза – парадигма полемике литературе и друштва
The appearance of “black” or “realistic prose” in Serbian literature was conditioned as much by the European and Yugoslav cultural context as by the stages of ideological and political changes in social processes. The first literary texts which explicitly denied the poetics of socialism realism appeared at the beginning of the 1950s, and were fully affirmed at the end of the 1960s. “Black prose” was a strong polemic with the thematic, linguistic and ideological postulates of previous literary production. The new prose insists on factual and documentary, on an ugly, marginalized and socially miserable existence, and it is characterized by a parodic attitude towards established literary forms.
srpski
2024
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Keywords: “black prose”, “realistic prose”, socialist realism, documentary prose, parodic Attitude.