Poetika romana Krivice Huseina Bašića
The Poetics of the book series Krivice 1–2 and Krivice 3 by Husein Bašić

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the poetics of the book series “Krivice 1–2” and “Krivice 3” by Husein Bašić. “Krivice” are new-history novel-chronicles about World War II, revolution, implementing a new authority and the Informbiro Resolution in Sandžak. The title comes from an ideological stereotype “Turkish blame” used to, in an epic culture of hatred and revenge, grant amnesty to persecutions and crimes committed against Bosniaks who, after the Ottoman Empire receded, found themselves in a position of an unwanted Other, suffering in every Balkan war. The narrator is a distanced analytic and chronicler of events, who documents by citing archival material, literary, newspaper and diary texts, proclamations, letters etc., as well as introducing living people and historical figures in a role of political and cultural witnessing. The modus of narration is subordinate to the objective of truthfulness of witnessing through dialog, direct and indirect speeches from the characters and free indirect speech which includes the author’s attitude with an ironical deflection. Showing and reporting connects intertwined scenic displays of national-politic and social happenings, imprinting via method of montage into a mosaic map of a complex historical situation. Episodic sequences of psychological dramas and traumas are told with a lyrical expression and a dramatic charge. A nice humoristic and relaxing irony permeates the entire narrative, in which the discourse of power of the Party is strongly ironized, as well as the discourse of every ideological practice.

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