Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music)

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Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music)

In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in Prodanović's novel about the war in former Yu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Norris, David A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Modern Humanities Research Association 2013
Subjects:	Serbian literature representations of war intertextuality
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30894/

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