HODŽA STRAH DERVIŠA SUŠIĆA : STRAH POD BEČOM I OD BEČA STRAH
DERVIŠ SUŠIĆ 'S HODŽA STRAH : FEAR BEFORE VIENNA, FEAR FROM VIENNA

Summary/Abstract: The narrative imagining of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the psychological new-historicist novel Hodža Strah by Derviš Sušić begins from the moment of his protagonist’s first encounter with the Austrians, deep in the lands of foreign culture. The experience of a foreign subject in the immediate proximinity of his own distinctiveness in Hodža Strah conditions the traumatic reality of bloody war, articulated at the point of imperial conquest of great colonial forces – the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Thereby, the establishment of any kind of identity in this novel is conditioned by the strong influence of the hegemony of superior authorities and centres of power. The questioning of the meaning of history and historical processes in Hodža Strah starts from the perspective of the individual, who views the negative effect of irrational forces of history through the visor of meaningless wars and death in the world, prepared in advance for humanity’s defeat.

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