Žrtva i svjedok zločina: Pitanja identiteta u romanima Kulin, Košmar i Gola koža Zlatka Topčića
Victim and Wintness of Crime: The Question of Identity in Zlatko Topčić's Novels Kulin, Nightmare and Naked Skin

Author(s): Dijana Hadžizukić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Zlatko Topčić; Kulin; Košmar; Gola koža; identity; witness; memory;
Summary/Abstract: This paper will research into the questions of identity and the ways in which Zlatko Topčić answers to them in his novels. The paper focuses on the novels Kulin, Nightmare (Košmar) and Naked Skin (Gola koža) that were written and published in Sarajevo, during the agression on Bosnia and Herzegovina or right after that. First thing to notice is a biographical author who in his autopoeticism choses the identity of a historical and moral witness, and the next one is the series of identity questions posed by the texts of the novels. Starting from the individual trauma, through memory and testimony, Topčić’s novels question the identity of the marginalized victims and theirtestimonies through letters and writings, as well as the identity of the differently different others within the usual order of identity. These are novels in which the “I – witness“ through the artistic creation of traumatic memories becomes one of the creators of the collective memory.

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