POETICS OF MEANING AND SYMBOL IN THE NOVELS MOJA SESTRA ELIDA AND RUGANJE S DUŠOM BY MIRKO KOVAČ

Through a comparative analysis of the novel Moja sestra Elida (1965) and the novel Ruganje s dušom (1976), we tried to decipher the poetic characteristics of Mirko Kovac’s work in terms of symbolism and meaning. Bearing in mind that in the history of South Slavic literature, the publication of the novel Moja sestra Elida is considered a turning point between the two literary epochs of modernism and postmodernism, in this paper we pointed out the peculiarities of postmodernism, postmodernism with reference to the supplemented and reworked part of the novel Moja sestra Elida.