GRAD NA KRAJU CARSTVA (Mostar u romanu Mimar Hazima Akmadžića)
THE CITY AT THE END OF THE EMPIRE (Mostar in the novel Mimar by Hazim Akmadžić)

Summary/Abstract: Mimar Hajrudin, the architect of the Old Bridge in Mostar, has left a deep trace in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in the Bosniak tradition and a certain personality cult has been developed about him so it is not surprising that he was an inspiration to novelist HazimAkmadžić in his novel „Mimar“. his novel focuses on the construction process of the Old Bridge in Mostar where some of the most complicated human realtions were intertwined, as well as the psychological development of the character of mimar Hajrudin, who is gradually approaching his spiritual catharsis and cosmic surging, which raises the construction of the Old Bridge above and beyond this world making it a Universe-worthy project. Having the plot low based on the stated narrative elements, Akmadžić leads the reader to cognition that the Old Bridge in Mostar exceeds its functional value and it represents an exquisite work of art, threaded with ine lines of mimar’s love and serving as a ilter of atonement of mimar’s sins. hus, the destruction of the Old Bridge during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) is not only the destruction of a monument, it is also killing of a city’s heart and putting its mimar to death.

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