This article explores the literary representation of memory and remembrance processes in the contemporary Slovenian novels V Elvisovi sobi (In Elvis’s Room, 2019) by Sebastijan Pregelj and Kruh, prah (Bread, Dust; 2018) by Marko Sosič. What both novels have in common is the motif of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, which they convey through the literary memory of recent past by (dis)continuously stringing together amorphic cores of memory, which meet at the intersection of individual and collective memory. The first part of the article presents a sociological, historical, and narrative framework as the basis for the narratology and content analysis of the two works conducted in the second part. This is combined with a simultaneous contextual interpretation of the novels, which focuses on the key difference between the two narratives.
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