DINAMIKA ŽELjE U „BOŽJIM LjUDIMA“ BORISAVA STANKOVIĆA I „KUĆI MARIJE POMOĆNICE“ IVANA CANKARA

Abstract

The paper interprets literary ways of shaping the dynamics of desire in the characters of Borisav Stanković’s God’s Children and Ivan Cankar’s The Ward of Mary Help of Christians. The subject of the analysis of the work of the Serbian writer are the modes of the absolutization of desire in the rogue characters of provisional vagabond communities, or, more precisely, the generative-constitutive role of desire and impossibility of its fulfillment. The heroes of Stank- ović’s stories reflect a specific anthropological image, determined by a constant deprivation as a fundamental internal property of the subject. Parabolic structure of the stories plays an important role in the shaping of meaning. When interpreting the work of the Slovenian writer, the focus is on the rogue subjects, too, particularly those excluded from the community. Throughout the analysis, the dynamics of vitalist impulses and death drives is being investigated, as well as the relation between the subjects of such an experience and social norms. At the end of the paper, the similarities and differences of characters’ actions and their meanings in God’s Children and The Ward of Mary Help of Christians are examined.