Humor Maieutics in the Prose Manuscripts of the Contemporary Serbian Women Writers

Bremasоni by Mirjana Đurđević / Maco, da l` me voliš by Ljubica Arsić

Abstract

Ljubica Arsić and Mirjana Đurđević have generated their own, authentic dialogue of laughter metamorphoses – which refuses to „harden in the shell of an anachronistic form“. The aim of this paper has been to illustrate, on the examples of the novel Bremasoni by Mirjana Đurđević and the stories from Maco da l` me voliš by Ljubica Arsić, some of the poetic determinants which are relevant factors in the formation of a humorous discourse in their prose texts, and as one of the most dominant structural and ideological-poetic factors in this context, the idea of a dialogue (or „meaningless dialogues“) is considered realized in opposition to the concepts of male / female, the chronotope negation, the use of parody, deconstruction, carnival view of the world, etc. The textuality in Bremasoni by Mirjana Đurđević and Maco, da l` me voliš by Ljubica Arsić stems from the idea of glorifying the humorous and demolishing the ruling image of the world with a rebellious intent to express the essence of the world in a language of laughter that will not allow for the seriousness to be petrified and separated from the integrity of life. By creating a bold formal-language experimental game, the Logic of Language equated to the Logic of The Game in the prose Manuscripts of the two authors fulfilled a deconstructive and productive laughter function, on which Pirandello insisted by giving it the task of „decomposing, demystifying, and deconstructing“.