Fantastička pripovijetka u Bosni i Hercegovini
The Fantastic Narrative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The fantastic discourse has not been explored thoroughly in the Bosnian- Herzegovinian literary studies, and this is the reason why it is an attractive field of scholarly analysis. This text is an attempt to open the door into the heterogeneous world of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian fantastic, from the national tradition till postmodern narratives. I used, among other works, the material from the Nenad Radanović’s Anthology of the fantastic narrative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I also consulted works about fiction of diverse literary theoreticians, starting with “the father of modern theory about fantastic” Tzvetan Todorov, to end with the modern theoretician of fantastic lieterature Renate Lachmann. The conclusions of this paper confirmed the initial thesis that the fantastic discourse and the fantastic aestethics exist like a particular canon in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature, but also the fear that the fantastic literature resists systematization, qualification, monosemy, the enclosure into theoretical frame. Luckily, it also resists “the temporality as a supreme form of nothingness” (Branimir Donat), so we have ahead of us temptations and challenge of the future studying of this subject.

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