ZAPISI SNOVA LJUBOMIRA SIMOVIĆA: KRATKE PRIČE I/ILI MALE PRIČE

Although more attention has been paid to the dreams of literary characters, the authentic dream records have not often been the subject of literary studies. The subject of the paper will be a comparison of the characteristics of a short story and a small story with the characteristics of dream records from Ljubomir Simović's dream diary. By finding similarities with the mentioned texts, we try to highlight some specificities of dream records as a special shorter prose type. Some of the similarities with the short story are the narrative, fragmentariness, thematic variety, in medias res beginning and open end, while the closeness between the dream record and the small stories is reflected in the reference to recent events, the tendency to tell something or remain si- lent, seeing the story as part of a larger whole etc. The aim of the paper is to highlight the peculiarities of dream records and create a basis for further studies of dream records as a hybrid prose text.