“SEVDAH” ABOUT MOSTAR IN THE STORIES OF HAMZA HUMO Cover Image

SEVDAH O MOSTARU U PRIPOVIJETKAMA HAMZE HUME
“SEVDAH” ABOUT MOSTAR IN THE STORIES OF HAMZA HUMO

Author(s): Almedina Čengić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Bosnian Literature, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, History of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: “sevdah”; lyrical images of Herzegovina; poetic expression; short story;

Summary/Abstract: Hamza Humo’s literary oeuvre is determined by speciic stylistic forms that represent his work within the framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s artistic heritage. “Sevdah” and “sevdisanje”, love longing and ecstasy, which in their ultimate meaning are primarily “basic substances that according to the teachings of the ancient Arabs, that is, Greek doctors, are found in the human body”, Humo is not characterized at the level of relationships between human beings, speciic love is addressed to his hometown - Mostar. He sighs over the landscape of his existence and in the ecstasy of the artistic experience of memorized images, scenes and associative moments, tells the story of his native Mostar. “As a poet of life’s joy and a narrator of sad destinies”, Humo writes his poems, novels, poems and inds inspiration in descriptions of nature and emphasizing its connection with the destiny of man. he aim of this paper is to prove how the writer (H. Humo) emotionally experiences the locational and temporal determinants of a recognizable environment with speciic stylistic means and artistic variables, creating distinctive visions within his own literary prose.

  • Issue Year: 5/2022
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 399-409
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian
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