EKUMENSKI ROMANI ENESA KARIĆA
ECUMENICAL NOVELS BY ENES KARIĆ

Author(s): Vedad Spahić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: lowering of cultural values; interreligious and intercultural dialogue;
Summary/Abstract: Novels written by Enes Karic “Jevrejsko groblje” (Jewish cemetery) and “Slučajno čovjek” (Accidentally human) are connected in their plots; they have a mutual hero and the central topic – the possibilities and perspectives of interreligious and intercultural dialogue. What connects them even more thoroughly is that they are novels with a thesis. Marking religions today as “museums of long gone hope” Karic doesn’t set the bar of his ecumenical expectations high. The outcome vision (thesis) of this novel writer is not to achieve some interdoctrinal consensus but to establish and maintain a dialogue as such, for which it is necessary to remove the dialogue from the religious-academic elite circles and lay it in the parterres and agoras of profane life. The author’s key operation of lowering cultural values must encompass the layman level where, as the author unequivocally suggests to us, the dialogue of religions, ideologies and cultures can only hope for effectiveness, purpose and sense. This intention created problems for the author concerning the naturalization of layman characters overburdened by the sophisticated spiritual-theological agenda and thus the surprising solutions are not always on the level which contributes to the aesthetic credibility.

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