Politička aksiologija Zije Dizdarevića
ZIJA DIZDAREVIC’S POLITICAL AXIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Zija Dizdarevic is one of the greatest writers of between-two-wars Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature. He was ranked as the most promising Marxist intellectuals in the period between the two world wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He belonged to a generation of leftist writers tragically died in the SecondWorld War. He actively participated in the work of advanced youth associations that radically criticized official political ruling regime. He is one of the signatories of the open letters that progressive students’ intelligentsia from Bosnia and Herzegovina sent to the former political authorities, public workers and the public, unhappy with the current political situation and the rigid political circumstances that reduced the normal civil and national existence. He was radical critic of superficiality, one-track-ideology and ignorance in society, politics, science, culture and literature. He was ranked as atypical, progressive and liberal intellectual in the Yugoslav revolutionary Marxist movement. He often caricatured the gloomy social and political reality by pejorative tones, reflecting his dissatisfaction by epoch in which he existed. In creating his prose, Dizdarevic preferred the anthropological approach. He showed the real life of people in Bosnian province and former Bosnia, which, among other things, was highlighted by paternalistic tradition, authentic customs, religious differentiation, shortage of properties, capitalistic new-trends and sense of hopelessness, which was brought by political era between-two-wars. Zija Dizdarevic, the writer had clearly built the ideological, political and ethical attitude on the public sphere and the idea of the politics. He critically perceived the official absolutist ruling regimes, Nazism and its followers, capitalism, patriarchal provincialism and, besides, he had developed the Bosnian political and ethnic identity that was based on the idea of religious convergence.

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