SOPTINA HERCEGOVAČKA DUOLOGIJA
HERZEGOVINIAN DUOLOGY BY IVAN SOPTA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the two novels of the Herzegovinian duology by Ivan Sopta – The Days of Misery and Hunger (1937) and The Unquiet Peace (1940). The novels string the events in an out-of-the-way, poor village of Sopta’s native Herzegovina during and after World War I. Presenting the tribulations and the final downfall of several Herzegovinian families, Sopta realistically conjured up all the life misery of the then Herzegovina in which life had always been an eternal struggle both with earthly and heavenly forces for bare existence, for a place under the sun, and for a crumb of freedom. The characters of Sopta’s both novels are in a state of mind of restless peace, and there is no deliverance and no happy end for them. These novels written in a realistic manner, interwoven with oral literature as well, also function as an authentic testimony about one of the most difficult periods of the recent Croatian, Herzegovinian history, speaking sincerely and bluntly about the struggle for survival.

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