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- Title
FROM TERRIFYING VILLAIN TO TRAGIC HERO: MIODRAG BULATOVIĆ'S PROBLEMATIC REHABILITATION OF THE HISTORICAL DRACULA.
- Authors
DINU, CAMELIA
- Abstract
The present study analyses the novel Death's Lover (1990) by the Yugoslav writer Miodrag Bulatovid. The main character is the con troversial figure Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, a medieval Romanian prince. The first part of the study identifies the elements that remain true to the historical chronicle thereby giving the text the character of a documentary. From this point of view, the novel is a demystifying account of Dracula, the Western Europeanconstructed fictional vampire, and a rehabilitation of the Eastern European historical figure Vlad the Impaler. The second part of the study identifies and analyzes the mechanics and belletristic discursive strategies which appear in the novel, among which are: the frame story structure and framing device; elements of psychological portraiture; the use of rhetorical figures such as hyperbole, allegory, antithesis; the creation of suspense; the existence of a plot twist; the alternation of first person narration with third person narration; the use of aesthetic and literary mechanisms such as understatement, irony and the grotesque. The result is a work of creative nonfiction that explores and reconstructs history through fictional means. The third part of the study explores the political and ideological motives underlying Bulatovid's revalorization of Vlad Dracula, a cruel prince obsessed with battling the Ottoman Empire, in the context of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the intensification of nationalist tendencies and ethnic cleansing.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; FIRST person narrative; SUSPENSE fiction; ETHNIC cleansing; HISTORICAL source material; CREATIVE nonfiction; THIRD parties (Law)
- Publication
Philobiblon: Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1224-7448
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26424/philobib.2022.27.1.04