HISTORICAL FACTS IN LAZA LAZAREVIĆ’S NOVELS
Keywords:
realism, civil society, historical facts, veracity, comparisonAbstract
Realists emphasized objective truth as their aim. Just as the scientific truth, their truth had to be objective, precisely documented and provable. It is interesting to consider the extent to which they fulfilled this requirement. These texts bear signs of fictionality (fictional stories), but the possibility of authentication exists. Considering the fact that the most prominent Serbian realists were also extreme regionalists, it is possible to establish the relation between imagination and real facts in their work, based on historical, archival, ethnographic, sociological and similar research. The short stories of Laza K. Lazarević, i.e. his depiction of life in the urban environment in the end of the 19th century in Šabac, will be used as an example for the analysis.
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