Dragišić, Olivera (2025) The Peach – Unnoticed Symbol of the Great War in the Romanian Novel The Game with Death and Bulgarian Novel The Peach Thief. In: Serbian/Yugoslav-Romanian Relations and Interactions in the 20th Century, eds. Vladimir Lj. Cvetković, Ionuț Nistor. Beograd : Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Iasi : University, Faculty of History, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, pp. 255-268. ISBN 978-86-7005-205-5

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the motif of peach in two Balkan novels: „The Game with Death”, by the Romanian writer Zaharia Stancu and „The Peach Thief”, by the Bulgarian writer Emiliyan Stanev, which were adapted into feature films. The peach motif in them closely resembles with the peach mo-tif in the Serbian legend about soldier`s šantelija. The peach was portrayed as a symbol of suffering in love as well as a symbol of immortality and a new beginning. It can also be interpreted as a symbol of the suffering and victory of the Serbian soldier in the First World War.

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