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LITERATURE

Marek, Belle Gunness, Jean Lorett (Жана several arguments for her thought-out and
Лорет), Mara Buneva, and Mencha Karni- fully implemented women’s writing. Not
chu, Магзин Пипо. The inspiration for the only that women are central characters in
selection of these characters by the author the different proses, but also the author
was an older “Encyclopedia of Murders” is- represents the entire self-poetic concept
sued by “Detska Radost” in 1998. However, playing with femininity here. In this sense,
even in the small, metaphorical motto, be- the very prose sub-genre is appropriately
fore every novelette there are “thoughts” constructed. The proses which are actual-
which are prescribed to few more famous ly long stories, are named novelettes. This
women murders such as Elizabeth Bátho- would be something between a story and
ry and Agrippina. a novel. However, the very name suggests
something gentle, small, feministic, made
Hence the author courageously under- for easy use, such as a knife, a casket, a
takes to represent and to retell us stories
about the most contentious and most
suspicious women in human history. She
tries to build a psychological portrait, to
disclose the motives and the mental con-
stitution of each of those women. These
psychological sketches are made with-
out didactics and without explanations,
rather through narration, situations and
representation of the general context. The
reader makes the conclusions himself, al-
though these are suggested by the writer.
However, in a discrete way. This avoid-
ance of a shallow moralization already
indicates the sympathies of the author. A
major evidence of her sympathies is actu-
ally the pointing out of the social context
as determining factor in the formation of
the pathological awareness and actions. In
different historical seasons, in different
class contexts, the society is always domi-
nated by the male world. The women try to
cope in such a world, shaped by the men,
or they show resistance through the dras-
tic actions, or they work on the order of
the male order givers. They are not aware
of their pathological behavior or they ac-
cepted it as a part of the social game, or
they choose it as the only possible way out
of a specific social situation. The patri-
archal domination is particularly cruelly
exposed in the novelette dedicated to the
terrorist actions of the historical VMRO
and the modern Islamic fundamentalists.
A representation is provided of unscrupu-
lous commanders and imagined fathers of
the nation, who are prepared to sacrifice
their women and children on the altar of
the deadly cause.

If so far we explained the feminist credo
of the author, below we would only give

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