Trans/realna poetika beletrizma u (trans)noveli/(trans)romanu Greta Faruka Šehića
The Trans/Realist Poetics of Belletrism in Faruk Šehić’s (trans)novella/(trans)novel Greta

Summary/Abstract: Faruk Šehić’s 2021 long novella/short novel Greta, subtitled “The Ballad about Migfold/Dark, Emotional Transrealism”, is a transrealist refugee story about one Bosnian and Herzegovinian boy/young man and his family who dream of returning home, and finally come home to a town ravaged by war. Greta deals with their brutal war and refugee reality and, simultaneously, with the higher reality in which their life is embedded. It is a fairy tale for adults. The story is retrospectively narrated by a boy/a young man named Uviđavni (Ar./Tr. Truth teller). Greta, the title character, is his non blood related family member and his own Lady of the Light. Even though Greta is the story about the darkness of a war, it is also the story about the power of imagination, hope, and dreams that all together bring light into the dark reality. Therefore, Greta can be seen as a transrealist fiction about light. This paper will deal with the trans/realist poetics of belletrism in Šehić’s Greta, as well as with its off modern Weltanschauauung, and then with Šehić’s poetic aim to praise the mutilated world in his own way.

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