The “THE UNPROVABLE NIGHT OF LIFE”: IMAGOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MIRKO KOVAČ’S SHORT STORY DAY AND NIGHT

Abstract

Mirko Kovač’s thematic preoccupations such as various forms of violence, power or disintegration of ideologies, or confrontation between principles of Eros and Thanatos, interpolate with a complex problem of one’s relations towards the otherness. This paper examines the described problem as a highlighted motive in Kovač’s literary imaginarium, but dominantly as a part of his short story Day and night. The author of the paper also takes into consideration the context of Kovač’s books like Wounds of Luka Mestrevic, Malvina, or Doors of the womb and marks primary imagological, and secondary psychoanalytical aspects of Kovač’s short story.