The significance of the mother-daughter relationship and the loss of the mother through the prism of the novel "Bella sama" by Violeta Tancheva-Zlateva

The subject of interest in the scientific article is the latest prose work of the Macedonian writer Violeta Tancheva-Zlateva, titled unusually “Bella sama”. The novel follows the family history of the adolescent Bella, from the moment before her birth, up to her enrollment in college. The article examines the mother-daughter relationship, through Maria Lena's relationship with her aunt, as a surrogate mother figure, then the relationship between Maria Lena and her daughter Bella. In the article, great attention is paid to the meaning of this relationship, in order to highlight its importance in the development of a young person. Accordingly, the article discusses the impact of the loss/death of the mother on the adolescent Bella, the way she copes with grief, but also how she manages to continue fighting in life on her own.