Humanistički mikropoentilizam pripovetke „Tiranija" Miodraga Bulatovića

Abstract

The problems of good, (auto)empathy, suffering and sacrifice are permeated in a poetically significant way in the early prose of Miodrag Bulatović, especially in the book The Devils Come (1955), one of the three important testimonies of the opposite – the demonic, diabolical nature of Serbian prose of the second half of the 20th century. Considering that with Bulatović, man himself is brought to the level of a phenomenon, with his deeply personal "program" of humanization, the short story Tyranny from the book The Devils Come emerges as both a formed and an open canvas, a floor plan without the main aspiration to become a man. Because there are already people there, the elders warn us, the heroes of this story. Thus, sketching in the narrative world what was framed in philosophy and humanist theory by Tzvetan Todorov ("imperfect garden" of people) and Paul Cézanne in the art of painting ("chromatic circle", optical painting), Bulatović narrows the originally opposing spectrum of colors with micro traces of love, kindness and sacrifice in confronting his heroes. Although narrowed, almost equalized in perverted revenge, the points of humanistic orientation still remain.