The article is an attempt to show the novel Otok snova (Island of Dreams,1996) by Damir Miloš as an example of a dystopian text. The author portrays the presented world of the book, first, as a postmodern consumer space where the pursuit of attractions is a dominant human activity, second, she presents the same picture through the prism of hyperbolic deformation. In the novel the original idyll takes the contours of hell, as she suggests. However, the reflection does not finish in a defeatist way. The author indicates a possibility of transition from dystopia to micro-utopia, but only in the case of reading the novel in the context of other works written by Damir Miloš.
The article is an attempt to demonstrate innovativeness and usefulness of the theory of allegory proposed by Dorothy L. Sayers, the author of The Writing and Reading of Allegory. Sayers identifies allegory as a literary genre, presents it as a ‘being’ mentally close to psychomachia, and tries to use the idea of “soul-battle” in the field of analytic psychology. Her conception seems to be fertile when interpreting Lost Homeland by Slobodan Novak.
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