SLIKA RATA UHVAĆENA U ALBUM I SKRIVENA U HODNICIMA - ROMANI VITOMIRA LUKIĆA
THE DEPICTION OF WAR CAPTURED IN ALBUM AND MASKED IN HODNICI - NOVELS BY VITOMIR LUKIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Vitomir Lukić (1929-1991) is one of the most interesting figures in the artistic and intellectual life of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the latter half of the 20th century. Despite this, few pages have been written about him, and only a few sentences in passing about the depiction of war in his work. In fact, Lukić has not been written about or even considered as an (anti-) war writer. This paper seeks to demonstrate that his only two novels (Album, 1968 and Hodnici svijetloga praha, 1989), Vitomir Lukić perfected various techniques (in the sense of skills) of writing about war, without letting the subject of war occupy the foreground of his novels. These techniques are fantasy, unexpected chronotope and heterotope, religious syncretism, the idea of the victim, culture wars, carnivalization, aestheticization and aesthetic utopianism, intermediality (photography and painting), and rhetorical figures (metaphor, symbol, irony, paradox, the absurd).

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