Luan Starova’nın Keçiler Dönemi Romanına Bir Bakış - A Review of Luan Starova’s Novel The Time of the Goats

The Time of the Goats is the modern epic of the Balkans, which has hosted people from different religions, ideologies, nations and empire. The novel, starting from its name, revolts against conventional understanding of history/era. When Skopje turns into a “labyrinth city” in the work, the tragic aspect of the “migration” is told through the image of the river. The Time of the Goats is suitable for analysing in the context of “archetypal criticism” by containing archetypes of death, seeking, journey and rebirth. The book is also articulated to “minor literature” in terms of alterity, minority emphasis, linking the individual to politics and carrying the collective rhetoric. Albanian writer Starova, who lives in North Macedonia, wrote his novels mainly in Macedonian, French and Albanian. He mostly produces literary works in major languages. Intertextuality/ intersemiotic techniques (référence, parody, réécriture, ekphrasis etc.) are used in the novel. This study includes an overview of the novel The Time of the Goats in the context of mentioned theories.