THE REFLECTION OF THE TRAUMA OF THE MACEDONIAN PEOPLE IN THE NOVELS OF GJORGJI ABADJIEV AND TASHKO GEORGIEVSKI

Abstract

World history is inscribed with wars and revolutions that

history and politics perceive through facts. Psychiatry deals with the traumatic

consequences to people, which often find a place in literature. Numerous

works have been written by direct participants, witnesses of those events, as

well as their descendants. Macedonian history abounds with historical events

that have left deep-rooted traumas to the Macedonian people. During the

19th century, when states and nations were formed, numerous rebellions and

uprisings organized by the Macedonian people who fought for freedom from

five centuries of slavery and for the right to self-determination. However, the

great powers had a territorial interest in Macedonia, which is why they did

not take into account the democratic right of the Macedonian people, and they

turned a deaf ear to their appeals for help. Therefore, in 1903 in Thessaloniki,

a group of young revolutionaries - the Thessaloniki Assassins carried out an

attack through which they wanted to draw attention to the Macedonian issue.

Gjorgji Abadjiev writes about the psychological consequences to one of the

survivors of this historical act in the novel Pustina. The fate of the Macedonian

people had been decided in a most undemocratic manner in 1913, with the

Bucharest Agreement, which had divided the territory of Macedonia, and with

it, the Macedonian people had been disintegrated. Tashko Georgievski writes

about this political andhistorical event, which left a trauma on the Macedonian

people, individually and collectively, and which is reflected to this day, in his

nine novels titled Black Seed.