ŽENE U VALJEVSKOJ BOLNICI - BORBA SA SOBOM U RATNOM OKRUŽENJU
WOMEN IN VALJEVO HOSPITAL - INNER STRUGGLE IN WARTIME ENVIRONMENT ( VREME SMRTI BY DOBRICA ĆOSIĆ)

Summary/Abstract: The period of the First World War, described in so much detail in Ćosić’s novel, to the surprise of a reader insufficiently familiar with the author’s work, leaves an outstanding expanse and devotes due attention to female characters. The nurses in Valjevo’s improvised centre for care for the wounded, and their struggle with poor conditions in which they provide help to the wounded, allows room for their mutual multi-layer solidarity and conflicts at most diverse levels: mother-daughter, nurses among themselves and, most frequently, collision of the female psyche with a distinctively male environment, which are altogether aggravated by extremely brutal conditions. The author’s effort to penetrate into the psychology of younger and elderly women is worthy of analysis, over and over again, especially in the year of commemorating a hundred years’ anniversary since the beginning of the First World War.

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