WORD AS GRAPHICS – THE GRAPHIC PRESENTATION OF THE MINIMALISTIC STORIES IN SERBIAN LITERATURE FROM THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The paper is focused on the graphic presentation of the short short stories included in the books from the Competition for a short story on one page, organised in Serbia between 1987 and 1998. Built intertextually and interdisciplinary the stories eliminate the border between visual and verbal. On the one hand this represents a compensatory process – minimalistic forms create minimal volume on account of certain elements of classical works. On the other hand these short short stories provoke the conventional understanding of literature and make us question ourselves how acceptable is this moving and even removing of the definition for graphics and text.