This paper is the result of my experience with third- and fourth-year students from the Department of Macedonian Literature and South Slavic Literatures at the "Blaže Koneski" Faculty of Philology, in Skopje: students who chose the course Interpretations of Contemporary Macedonian Literary Texts from the four optional courses that were offered in the academic year 2005/2006. The course was designed as a kind of a supplement to the core subjects: Contemporary Macedonian Literature I (2+1), which deals with contemporary Macedonian poetry and takes place in the fifth and sixth semesters, and Contemporary Macedonian Literature II (2+2), which deals with contemporary Macedonian drama and prose, in the seventh and eighth semesters. As my guide, I used Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, a collection of 99 short stories all written in different styles, and yet all dealing with one and the same trivial event. For material I turned to Mitko Madžunkov's short stories and his fantastic discourse whose fundamental content is taken from the realm of dreams. I decided on the story Travelling which unfolds in merely a few lines, and is organised in a single sentence. Raymond Queneau, starting from the conviction that there is nothing more real than a single moment in life, was able to find 99 different ways to retell this, his own chosen single moment, and in that way to achieve literary realism. This was my challenge - to achieve something similar with this group of students. In the end, there were approximately 15 different versions, and an even greater variety of texts which resulted directly from Madžunkov's story.
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