Conflict core in the short stories by Laza K. Lazarević

Abstract

This paper examines noted and emphasized dramatic conflicts in the tales of Laza K. Lazarević, which are one of the reasons of the attractiveness and popularity of these narratives. It discusses the dramatic storyline that involves an individual or family and the dramatic flows of active and tense human emotions such as love, passion and existential threat. Through the analysis of dramatic situations and conflicts, it is revealed the similarity of these tales when it comes to the themes and motifs, especially the themes of the patriarchal family in those tales that show the individual and psychological problems of the individual. The roots of the dramatics of tales of Laza Lazarević arise from the conflict of emotion and consciousness, passions and commitments, temperament and settled order between the environment and the individual or within an individual. The collective spirit and the individual are confronted, duty and passion, family loyalty and love, revealing to readers problematic social relations in Serbia of writer's time.

Keywords

• tale
• conflict
• dramatic flow
• dramatic situation
• an individual
• patriarchal community