Eliezer Papo’s Ludus and Loghothesis

Abstract

The first decades of the 21st century included several books by Eliezer Papo in the corpus of Serbian literature. In their content and form, these books represent a significant novelty, as they open a new chapter in the literature written by Jews in the Serbian language.

The writer, through his books of short stories and other genre variations, posed several hermeneutical tasks to readers, the most important of which was the status of the signifier.

In this paper, we focused on what the Russian formalists called poetic language. A process comparable to the “alienation effect”, the metrical play with verse and numerous other processes that can be observed in Papo’s literature, require a careful balancing between ludus and loghothesis (in the sense that Roland Barthes gives to these terms) that this literature generates.