PROZA EDHEMA MULABDIĆA IZMEĐU USMENE TRADICIJE I MODERNOG
EDHEM MULABDIĆ'S PROSE BETWEEN ORAL TRADITION AND MODERN

Summary/Abstract: Edhem Mulabdić was one of the most important intellectuals of his time and an avant-garde figure of the Bosniak social and cultural scene at the turn of important epochs of Bosnian history towards the end of the 19th century.In the circumstances of the transitional period of Bosniak culture, the so-called renaissance literature, and the search for ways of (self) cognition and affirmation of national cultural identity - Mulabdić was forced to search for the origins of his literary creation in the oral tradition of the people to whom he belonged, but at the same time he gradually adapted to the literary models and poetics of the Western European cultural milieu and provenance. As a narrator and as the first Bosniak novelist, he bridged in a productive way the gap between the expressiveness and spirit of two epochs (the old times of Ottoman rule and the coming epoch of inclusion in the Western civilization model of life organization): Relying, both motivically and stylistically, on traditional models of narration from oral literature (ballads and epics), he sought new techniques and models of narrative art, opening the space for the expression of modern Bosniak prose.

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