О злу, о освети, о тишини, о самилости
About Evil, About Revenge, About Silence, About Compassion

(Trup Ivo Andric)

Summary/Abstract: Although Brother Petar known as the one who talks in Andric’s works, in the story Trup he mostly listens and especially listens to under some form of coercion, and only later that listens (partly and see) timidly and, while he was in captive on only one occasion, transmitted (retold) to other. But he never forgets the story, and when he returned home, he tells the others, and that’s saying is what he is separated from others. (Though, in fact, separated him from the others, primarily its sensitivity for others.) In this story, therefore, the narrator is more someone else. A basic issue or question of all questions in the story Trup is: Why is this talk, why to the strange man, how he deserves that? That is about the legend of Celebi-Hafiz, the abuser reduced on nothing, hull, weaves the legend of the need of talking about it (slave-Turk, Brother Peter). But without story about Karajazadži not be able to comprehend the story of Celebi-Hafiz. Both stories go side by side. Karajazidži’s presence is great, more than convincing, compensation for the absence of Hafiz! Brother Petar does not speak how Celebi Hafiz felt because he was blind, without arms and legs, with strangely disfigured face. It is the speech of silence! But from that perspective, Brother Peter’s perspective of storytelling and from the perspective of storytelling that mysterious Turk (slave) about Celebi-Hafiz it was impossible to know and tell. This is why that Brother Peter’s gather from prison in Accra. But if it is hurting the hand, wich in his thoughts were cut off, as you have just Hafiz hurt both arms and both legs and both eyes and face without a face ?! Karajazidži did not understand what was understood (felt) Brother Peter. About Celebi-Hafiz he tells story from positions of Christians, but Brother Petar from the position of man. He does not have compassion for Celebi-Hafiz, Brother Peter – has! Unlike Brother Peter, Karajazidži in Celebi-Hafiz sees only a Turk; Do not fall occurred to him that it was unfortunate Turk and makes permanent deflection of him, convinced that in Brother Peter, a man of his faith, has unquestioning support. After all, he did not have direct access to the Celebi-Hafiz look, the look of his accident; he also was the way it is, as it was by the testimony of Brother Peter, was a Turk who resisted! If then Brother Peter was even close to his understanding of this, later, or much later, in the subsequent memory of Celebi-Hafiz, it certainly changed. Compassion for the unfortunate fate of a man won a preponderance even despite his overall evil.

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