Unfeasibility of Love

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Unfeasibility of Love

It is not by accident that this other space is felt exactly in the moments of erotic longing and lust or in the moments of endangerment, and quite often the feelings of endangerment and erotic longing appear together. Another assumption is possible too that in both of the novels love for the fatherland is substituted with love for the beloved i.e. the balance which was set at the beginning is challenged by the exile and it turns into imbalance. The family triangle in Migrations (through the characters of Vuk, Dafina and Angele) is substituted with love triangle, and Done’s patriotism is substituted with erotic feeling for Angelina. Mediator of this upheaval is the boundary line between the dream and reality.
We would especially like to point out the fact that the central role in the symbolic system of the novel Migrations belongs to the incessant blue circle with star, and in Tashko Georgievski’s work – the red plaid. In this regard, the places where they appear have significant function in the novel construction and most often they appear in the context of the erotic ecstasy or feeling of endangerment, being lost, caused by the lost of the fatherland, which justifies the thesis that those two topics: exile and love are complementary, and the motif passion (patriotic or erotic) is felt as an opportunity for reintegration.
In Migrations, the most clear example of such act can be found in the moments when Mrs.Dafina performs the adultery, and later when she dies. Spelled by her beauty, her brother in law Angel feel in her eyes the other world, and when she dies, mentally deranged, he sees above her blue circles with a star, the same circles which Vuk Isakovic sees on the gloomy sky in the moments of the important battles.
Maybe the parallel between erotic feeling and patriotism would not be so clear if it weren’t for another detail – Vuk sees the same circles with a star in the moments of his wife’s adultery. That is the way in which picture of the circle with a star with metonymy (touch) reaches the peak of the symbol.
In Black seed we find similar situation, but it is more explicit, in which it is insisted on the parallel between the patriotism and erotic feeling. The simplicity of the motivation with which Done, condemned prisoner on the “island of death” persists the terror is fascinating.
In the moment of existential endangerment, in situation in which there is not clear distinction between reality and dream, he in his minds recalls the face of his wife Angelina as an opposition of the terror he experiences. Thus she becomes support of his persistence not to sign the documents which would mean giving up from the communist party which he never belonged too. The dream for his beloved is the only support in his defense mechanism in order to survive and to stay faithful to his patriotism, which is innate to him. In the further development of the events, in other novels there is and indicative factor where the ideal for the woman is substitute with relic, red plaid, which just as the blue circle with star, performs the function of transmission in the idealized space. Foretold with the motif of thrown wedding ring, the substitution of the erotic feeling with an altruist love will be developed in the events that follow, exactly through the motif of red plaid. Just as it “flies” in the air and with that turns into ideal mark (which means its co-existence in the reality), in the same way the recognition that love for the beloved is infeasible is crystallized.
Through the symbols in the text, we come to the same result: just as on the broad domain we come to the attitude that man without fatherland, exiled from the native country, is man without root, we here come to a recognition that love for the beloved is infeasible.
In the Georgievski’s and Crnjanski’s novels a strange phenomenon is discovered: the perception of the nature, the foreign one, often discloses the man and rarely experiencing the beloved one; it discloses character’s connection with the native country; in the character of the beloved the entire social and political tangledness of the situations in which characters live and act can be seen. This parallel is undetermined, it can be felt, but the undetermindness offered by the author is not an accidental. It does not appear because of in concordance of the two central themes, which at the first glance may seem unrelated. This implicitly, blurriness reveal the ambiguity of the love/passion itself, which, by definition, is counter social, but at the same time connected to the social environment with secret relations out of which it would not exist. In this regard, the impossibility to experience the fatherland as fulfilled dream produces picture of unfeasibility of erotic love. The tragic lies in the outcome of both.
In Migrations and in Georgievski’s novels we encounter the motif of unfulfilled love, that is, the motif of tragic love. The family triangle is solved with the death of Mrs. Dafina, and Done’s love for Angelina with disappearance. Just as in the novels we are shown the loss of the father land, at the same way the unfeasibility of love can be felt. The drawback, which incites feeling of being lost, needs compensation through conquering of a new space, new place of living. This space cannot be found in the reality and therefore is changed with the space of love. And if the expected safety and stability cannot be found there, one looks for a new space – Done’s altruism or one retreats through the feeling of ontological discard in the world, which is the basic difference between mentioned novels. While in Georgievski’s work besides the dark feelings and tragic events thorough the character of done a ritualistic line exists, in Migrations fearful picture of the worthlessness dominates.
Or: The philosophic center of these novels is experience or quest for love, as From says, as an answer to the problems in the man’s existence. Exiled from a natural environment, the characters in the novels are in an undetermined, unsure and open situation. To be exiled means to be impowerfull. The attempt of second comeback and joining is possible through love. The absolute failure in overcoming the separation leads one to insanity or death, for which novels witness.

AuthorLoreta Georgievska Jakovleva
2018-08-21T17:23:40+00:00 March 1st, 2002|Categories: Reviews, Literature, Blesok no. 25|0 Comments