Irfan Horozović – interkultur(al)na veza hrvatske i bosanskohercegovačke književnosti
Irfan Horozović – Intercultural connection between Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature

Summary/Abstract: Irfan Horozović, as an example of a writer who has been writing out of territorial, linguistic, ideological and existential framework of the home environment, has become a spotlight of the recent theoretical considerations which emphasizes his identity / diversity. This paper takes a different approach aimed to see Horozović not as “two-literature writer” but Croatian and Bosnian literatures as a kind of intercultural literatures. The question is why it was written about Horozović in critical papers and studies of Croatian fantasists (B. Donat, V. Visković and J. Pavičić) while we can found him in all Bosnian Herzegovinian literature books and while Horozović himself chooses to be a BosnianHerzegovinian writer. This paper attempted to answer these questions and confirm the thesis that “intercultural history of literature can be useful in many ways and help Croatian studies not taking away anything from their socio-cultural, patriotic-enlightenment functions or of their national and social importance, so that they can, in a more relaxed way, understand their particular differentiation, literature of their diaspora, and then their intercultural specificity in the context of South Slavic / Slavic culture” (Z. Kovač). The ultimate goal of this paper is also to show, in the case of Irfan Horozović, that specific feature of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature to share its writers with other literatures is, in fact, not a disadvantage but an advantage, the more so because it gets in this way diversity and interculturalism, openness and specifics, which are all important characteristics of modern literature.

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