How to read Hasan or the resurrection of a contingent apparition of real readers
How to read Hasan or the resurrection of a contingent apparition of real readers

Summary/Abstract: A fragment from the novel Death and the Dervish, the famous monologue by Hasan about the Bosniak identity, to which this review is dedicated, is exceptionally appropriate for an interpretative manipulation. We have approached it from two different methodological starting points. The first reading (the inner approach) attempts to shed light on the aesthetic efficiency of Hasan’s soliloquy in the context of the structure/totality of the novel. The second starting point (the outer approach) is reading the monologue as an auto-imagological, politically instrumentalized discourse. The text should also be understood as an implicit answer to the question of whether it is possible to plausibly combine these approaches despite the incompatibility of the analytical points, while considering the fact that the compatibility of the writer’s and reader’s worldview is not a necessary prerequisite for aesthetic communication.

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