Usporedba pripovjedaka o djeci Ive Andrića i Isaka Samokovlije – Biti drugačiji
The Comparison of Stories About Children by Ivo Andrić and Isak Samokovlija; the Thematic Analysis: “Being Different”

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides a brief overview of touch points between the literary opus of two great Bosnian-Herzegovinian writers: Ivo Andrić and Isak Samokovlja. The first part of the paper points to similarities of literary opus by these two writers. In the second part, this relationship is shown in concrete examples. Although, comparing the works of these two writers, there may be more differences than similarities, it is indisputable that when their narrative works are viewed in the context of time, in the changes in which the literary manuscripts, ideas, topics and accentuations of the problem are addressed, it is easy to look for similarities. It is also possible to speak about the same inspiration of both writers on topics, occurrences and people from the native Bosnia. They share their desire to demonstrate, in the image, motion and rhythm, the richness of the gloomy landscape of Bosnia, the strange manifestations of human passions that are often on the pathological path; the mystic of the environment and human souls. Bouth of them used a folk phrase to show behavior of a man in a special situation or heightened emotional pressure: Andrić and Samokovlija are masters of languages, writers who modulate human suffering in the freshness of folk speech.

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