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Felix Austria ili kako se oprostiti od mitova (polemika s prethodnim diskursom na primjeru romana Sofije Andruhovyč)

Sofia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria is an exemplary text to consider in terms of the motif of distorted perception, multiple perspectives on “the truth”, a problem of self-identification and selective memory as a consequence of trauma which changes the protagonist’s consciousness while leaving the reader puzzled. In the focus will also be the pathos of the exaggerated descriptions of food and feasting and minute representations of culinary masterworks as a sort of allegory for creating a new dimension of reality, new nation and a merry people within it. This particular narrative perspective is brought to bear on the writer’s later novel Amadoca, which pivots around silenced, distorted and adapted memories as a result of the interpretation of history and the search for one’s identity. Felix Austria is further analyzed in the broader context of the topos of the mythologized cultural and geopolitical sphere of Austria-Hungary, where some authors have situated the western Ukraine in order to wrest it from the Soviet cultural and political influence. Finally, the novel is considered as an open metaphor at the level of the work of art responding to proponents of various ideas and myths.

ukrajinska književnost, Sofija Andruhovyč, roman Felix Austria

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