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ГДЕ ЈЕ ПРОКЛЕТА АВЛИЈА?
Where is the Damned Yard?

Author(s): Jelena Đ. Vesković
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Serbian Literature, Philology
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: Damnation; beginning; end; circle; space; Kafka;sense; identity; guilt; life; death

Summary/Abstract: How to approach The Damned Yard? If we had left keys of Andrić’s heavy prison’s door, if we have entered, stood in the center of dwarfed trees whilst father Peter, Ćamil, Karadjoz, had been standing or passing us by, if we had seen or heard everything, would have we been capable of reaching „The Damned Yard“? We are damned, aren’t we? Even though it has been writing a lot about Andrić’s literary work, especially about „The Damned Yard“, it seems that it’s not enough, so this essay will be pervasion of ideas and experiences. Eventually, we will not answer the question „Where is The Damned Yard?“, but we will try to present how have we been trying all along. Also, in this essay it is shown conception of heroes’, damnation and doubt of their’s indentities. Pursuing, right path, we found literary work, heroes, or ourselves Липар / Часопис за књижевност, језик, уметност и културу Јелена Ђ. Весковић 158 in circles. And there are no definite beginning and the end. Also, we will try to depict intercection of the kafkaesque absurd and Andrić’s „damnation“, and their’s space poetics. Finally, we will try to determinate whether we discover infinite question of life’s sense in „The Damned Yard“, or not, and is it possible at all.

  • Issue Year: XV/2014
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 149-158
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian