Амин Малуф: Животна мисија као хуманистички изазов немогућег
Amin Maalouf: A Life Mission as a Humanistic Challenge of the Impossible

Summary/Abstract: Through the oeuvre of the French-Lebanese novelist Amin Maalouf, an advocate of tolerance and dialogue between various cultures, the struggle for respecting minority groups and multiple identity is evident. In his historic narrative entitled The Crusades Through the Eyes of Arabs, as well as in Leo the African and other novels, numerous historic events are portrayed from a different angle, from the perspective of the marginalised, which serves as a narrative model of all his novels. From his influential essay entitled Killer Identities, a harsh judgement of tribal concept of personal identity, to the socio-political essay of Disordered World, to the novel Disoriented, a fictional counterpart of the latter essay, Maalouf is relentless in his humanistic and aporic mission, deeply aware of its necessity, but decreasingly convinced in its social role. This paper follows its main trends, reflecting upon the works with a pronounced socio-political dimension, as well as on the extracts from the rich epitext.

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