Kako pojesti višak života: slučaj gospodina Goluže

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to follow phenomenological and hermeneutical question of relations between the protagonist, his ontological portrait and identity in the specific game with food in it’s center in the novel “The death of mister Goluza” by Branimir Scepanovic. Food in this novel does not refer any more to traditional historical and social fields, but in the atmosphere of farcical core it appears as a sign of word and silence at the same time. The meal as a holy act, personal and collective ritual in the novel shifted to the game of “eating identity” of the main character. Therefore, food representations culminate in Goluza’s repeated encounter with death, because he himself tied it to the (philosophical) matter of essence. But, with the interference of the analysis of sense effusivness as the question of essence itself, Goluza remains unconscious the fact that his role lies in the interpretation of food as moving death, not in seeking food within the physiological needs. The role he’s given by the people of little fairytale town he can’t read as clear notification to leave the game of the philosopher because his existence became the phenomenon of guilt evocation. Unable to fight his own life without the form of existence, Goluza as absurd character, finally has been summoned to leave this world in (wanted) theatrical play on the textual significant place – the bridge.