AUTODESTRUKTIVNOST LIKOVA U PRIPOVETKAMA RADOJA DOMANOVIĆA

Abstract

The paper has primarily explored the topic of auto-destruction in the following Radoje Domanović’s short stories: “The Birthday”, “I am a Serb”, “Thwarted happiness”, “The revenge”, “Stana, the old woman”, “Hap- piness” (“A man’s pleasure”) and “Lost happiness”. Namely, something that is common to the characters of all the mentioned Domanović’s short stories is their auto-destruction, motivated by different reasons: some of them destroy themselves through their self-sacrifice, patriotism, whereas the others fall prey to auto destruction due to their excessive pride. The analysis has tried to show that auto-destruction employed in a literary context may have a whole plethora of different ways of application and be motivated by different reasons.