AUTODESTRUKTIVNOST LIKOVA U PRIPOVETKAMA RADOJA DOMANOVIĆA

The paper has primarily explored the topic of auto-destruction in the following Radoje Domanović’s short stories: “The Birthday”, “I am a Serb”, “Thwarted happiness”, “The revenge”, “Stana, the old woman”, “Happiness” (“A man’s pleasure”) and “Lost happiness”. Namely, something that is common to the characters of all the mentioned Domanović’s short stories is their auto-destruction, motivated by different reasons: some of them destroy themselves through their self-sacrifice, patriotism, whereas the others fall prey to auto destruction due to their excessive pride. The analysis has tried to show that auto-destruction employed in a literary context may have a whole plethora of different ways of application and be motivated by different reasons.