PROVINCIJA U POZADINI HASANA KIKIĆA U KONTEKSTU JUŽNOSLAVENSKE I SVJETSKE KNJIŽEVNOSTI
PROVINCIJA U POZADINI BY HASAN KIKIC IN THE CONTEXT OF SOUTH-SLAVIC AND WORLD LITERATURES

Summary/Abstract: If we compare the literary works created, at different geographical locations and by members of different ethnicities, but all describing the same tragic event—the First World War—we realize that Provincija u pozadini by Hasan Kikic completes the picture of that war as a whole. While our many South-Slavic and world-famous writers (Miroslav Krleza, Milos Crnjanski, Erich Maria Remarque, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Jaroslav Hasek, Ernest Hemingway) present war images from muddy trenches or blood-stained hospital beds, we might think that the image of war is not complete without its background. If we imagine the Great War as a play whose stage is decorated with the colours of blood and mud, then Kikic’s ’’Province” is a background withan equally strong anti-war message, and an equal participant in the war. Assuch, Provincija u pozadini can be a representative (and perhaps even a leader) of many anti-war works with its very strong and direct images and autobiographical elements that it carries like most works with similar themes.

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