Колективната и индивидуалната (пост)меморија во хетеро и автоперцепциите на идентитетот („Витезот и Византијката“ од Кица Колбе)

Abstract

Kica Kolbe's latest novel, The Knight and The Byzantine Girl (2020), confronts us with the phenomenon of the post-generational past, but not only as a psychological, but also as an ontological dominant. Placing it in a cause-and-effect relationship, on the one hand as a stereotypical hetero and self-perception of identity, and on the other hand as an individual trauma through which the main protagonist of this novel goes, Kolbe draws the basic plot line retrospectively. Following the transmission of the collective and individual conception of East and West, of humanistic and biogenetic ethics, Kolbe's novel is based on a debating dialogue between the Knight, Daniel Kluge (of German descent), and the Byzantine Girl Natalia Polenak (of Balkan descent). If to this is added the (post)memory syndrome characteristic of the Byzantine Girl, then the reason for her schizophrenic schism is clear, as a personal crisis of identity that opens the front against the mentioned Knight...