Završna riječ Zlatka Topčića autentičan prilog romanesknom dizajniranju autsajderske paradigme junaka u bosanskohercegovačkoj (post)ratnoj prozi
The Final Word By Zlatko Topčić Authentic Appendage to Romanesque Designing of Outsider Paradigm of Hero in Bosnia-Herzegovinian (Post) War Prose
Author(s): Vedad SpahićSubject(s): Bosnian Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: the outsider hero paradigm; (post)war prose; inner – otherness; minority view; requestioning; identity; literary life of Sarajevo; war crimes prosecution; post – genocidal victimology; love; love memo
Summary/Abstract: The novel's main protagonist is an outsider, humanistically self-aware and a universalistically declared figure. He is an «inner-otherness» and the writer wants to design him so that he embodies a kind of moral vitalism to the extent possible in a deadly war. The focus is on a minority view of the so-called meta theme and narrative which, in a mosaic-like consideration of the contemporary literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, may play a prominent role in the process of a permanent re-shaping, not just mere confirmation and evoking of personal and collective identities as literary and cultural creations. Inspired by the Bosniak post-genocidal victimology, values of the recent identity (re)configurations, seen from the outsider position of the «neutral other» aim for the integral representation of the collective spirit and for the reader willing to vigorously and deeply re-examine their own opinions. Even though the main protgonist is on trial for war crimes, the focal point of re-examination of the so-called logical order is love – the only area in which he does not function as an outsider – for only love contains some of the mystery against which conjunctures of ideologically silenced and philistine-shaped social reality repel, similarly to Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera.
Journal: Istraživanja
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 313-330
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Bosnian