ЈЕДНА НОСТАЛГИЧНА КОНТРАПРИПОВЕСТ: Е БАШ ВАМ ХВАЛАМАРКА ВИДОЈКОВИЋА

Abstract

Relying on the virtual narrative theory and the theory ofpossible worlds as a basis for interpreting narrative multiverses, this paper focuses on Marko Vidojković’s Thank You Ever So Much as a nostalgic counter-narrative in which the idea of nostos is realized by creating an alternative history. The events thatthe hero narrates/ writes in the first person take place in two parallel universes, “upward” (the world of the ideal SFRY, from which he comes) and “downward” (the world modelled after is the existential reality of the divided Yugoslav states) namely in the narrative present. At the diachronic level, the time axes, depicted in the form of the hero’s memories or dialogue, multiply backwards only until June 3, 1989, when the splitting of the universe(s) occurred. Further regressing introduces a motif of shared history and, through a wealth of details, reveals the position of the Yugo-nostalgic author of the narrative (Mirko Šipka or Marko Vidojković?), who avoids pathos with the help of irony, parody and vulgarisms while narrating us his anguish over all losthistorical possibilities to create the best country in the world, and his inability to return to his desired homeland.