Dekonstrukcija tranzicijskog oportunizma u romanu Sedam strahova Selvedina Avdića
War as a limit situation represents a national split both in an ideological and a identitary sense. Literature in postwar countries is, accordingly, often a field in which the reality of war is not just being processed, but also where the identity of a nation is being (de)constructed. In the case of the Bosnian- Herzegovinian identity, which was in a crisis even decades before the war in the 1990’s, this construction (or deconstruction) is still happening in literature. In novels such as Sedam strahova (Seven fears) by Selvedin Avdic this kind of war background for constructing an identity takes on a kind of mythical dimension, trying to “explain” the genesis of negative postwar social phenomena such as war profiteering, opportunism and overall moral decadency.
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