POLITIČKO-SOCIJALNA SATIRA PETRA KOČIĆA
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SATIRE BY PETAR KOČIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Radical changes in the political life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, caused by the turbulence of the European social being, directly induced the thematic determinations of the avant-garde writers of that time. Literature, with its comprehensiveness, has become the most suitable way to popularize advanced ideas about the democratization of existing social and state structures. With the agreement of the great European powers at the Berlin Congress in 1878, under the force of historical changes, the Ottoman Empire disappeared, and new nations and states were formed on its and other territories. The right to rule in civil affairs went to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and religious matters remained the responsibility of the Sultan in Constantinople. Bosnia became a corpus separatum, due to the complex dualistic union of K .u. K. of the monarchy, managed by its Ministry of Finance. The new government, established by military force, was implemented by a rigid administrative apparatus with the use of the German language. The anomie of society, secularization and coercion, as a global category, during the period of the rigid rule of the K. u. K., led to radical changes in which the poorest category of the population at that time, the peasants, were under attack. The imposition of taxes, punishments, arrests, violent confiscation of land and livestock, the right to life and existence, aroused interest in avantgarde literary circles, which began a literary struggle to improve such a situation and strive for the establishment of democratic equality. The Bosnian-Herzegovinian writer, from the Serbian people, Petar Kočić, directly conveyed his advanced libertarian views on the injustice suffered by his people in the satire ―Jazavac pred sudom‖. The idea message hidden in the procedures: construction of the plot, characterization of the characters and indirect incorporation of humorous parts; they resulted in opposition and an ironic attitude towards the violent behavior of the authorities. The aim of this work is to confirm, by means of research, analysis and proof, how much satire as a genre category is conducive to artistic expression directly related to critical views on political violence. Our intention is to explain the attitude of the writer, who in his ultimate constancy puts forth the idea of the reaction of a resigned man placed on the edge of exist.

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