Priča po mjeri (Proza Snježane Mulić i Lamije Begagić)
A story made to measure (Prose works of Snježana Mulić and Lamija Begagić)

Summary/Abstract: Two short story collections, Godišnjica mature (2005) by Lamija Begagić and Sanduk po mjeri (2007) by Snježana Mulić, significantly marked Bosnian-Herzegovinian literary production of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Despite both collections being authors’ first books, mature writing, feeling how to round up a story, cogent interweaving of perspectives and thematization of ”short cuts“, pieces torn out of narrators’ lives (bitter-sweet stories about small things that usually have fatal impact on protagonists’ lives) are characteristic for them and are narrated in the manner of montage mosaic. The paper shows from one side similarities, and from the other side differences in authors’ poetics (the first one is born in 1980, the second one in 1962) and at first sight apparent change of optics and narrative strategies in their second books, the novel Povratak (Mulić 2009) and the collection Jednosmjerno (Begagić 2010) where recognizable melancholic lyricism from their early prose works is kept.

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