NARATIVIZACIJA HOLOKAUSTA U ROMANU „KAO ZLATO U VATRI“ ALEKSANDRA PETROVA

Abstract

The narrativization of the Holocaust in the novel Like Gold in Fire takes place through two narratives, the first one that goes from the perspective of the narrator of the first chapter „Cities, years (1941–1994)” and the second inserted, framed story of the narrator, who is also the heroine, Laura Opriško Vujanov, that through the memory (individual and collective), transformed into a kind of novel within a novel (under the title War and Unrest), maps the suffering of Jews in the Second World War in the area of the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia, guided by the history of her family. The focus of the paper will be on the analysis of the mnemotops, as well as on the places of trauma, from Jasenovac to Sajmište, where narrators try to reconstruct the family and collective history. We performed the interpretation with an interdisciplinary approach, consulting known but also recent historical sources, relying on cultural studies as well as memory studies.