Zur literarischen Rekonstruktion des Opferbegriffes im Roman Schindlers Lift von Darko Cvijetić
On the literary reconstruction of the concept of victim in Darko Cvijetić's novel Schindler's Lift

Author(s): Jasmina Zlatarević
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Victimology
Published by: Društvo germanista u Bosni i Hercegovini (DGuBiH) / Germanistenverband in Bosnien-Herzegowina (GViBH)
Keywords: Darko Cvijetić; Schindlers Lift; victim; literary reconstruction;
Summary/Abstract: When Darko Cvijetić writes about skyscrapers in Prijedor in his novel Schindler's Lift, he doesn't think of the building as the epitome of human living. Nor is his literary impetus directed towards the events associated with this building. Basically, he is also not interested in the history of this city. He explicitly stands up for people, legitimizing his literary position through deep compassion for every victim of those skyscrapers of this city. The red and blue skyscraper are two of the tallest buildings in Prijedor. In 1975 the first tenants moved into the building. To this time all people still lived together and in peace. All those people celebrated and mourned together, as it was expected from a socialistic country, or from a multicultural Bosnia and Herzegovina. This multicultural country came into the focus of public attention some 15 years later, the difficult war years followed and the immediate post-war period. There is no narrative or narrator capable of understanding the horror of that war. No narrative could compare with the victims of the war. The literary intention of Darko Cvijetić was to prove this point.

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