ЕМОЦИОНАЛНИ ПЕЈЗАЖ РОМАНА ГОСПОЂИЦА ИВЕ АНДРИЋА
EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF THE IVO ANDRIĆ’S NOVEL THE WO­MAN FROM SA­RA­JE­VO

Summary/Abstract: The performed interpretation of Andrić’s novel The Wo­man from Sa­ra­je­vo tended to apply the affective-narratological concept of the emotional landscape, and consequently to emphasize the emotional layers of the text as an essential compositional and narrative aspect of the literary achievement. We shed light on the emotions of the implicit author, discussing the writer’s efforts to conceal and creatively transpose personal experience, but also his attitude that the careful reader will find and recognize the writer in every work. Then we established the narrative profile of the novel, trying to figure out what emotions provoke the narrator to tell the story of the unusual heroine Rajka and her unusual life, marked by austerity and material sacrifices. We paid special attention to the interpretation of the emotional profile of the heroes, that is, their manifestations of fear, happiness, love, sadness and hatred, actualized in Andrić’s novel. Looking at different emotional manifestations, we aimed to demonstrate the essential dependence of the narrative, motivation and chronotope on the emotions of the narrative instances and the actors themselves. We ended the observation of the novel’s emotional landscape by illuminating the readers’ emotions and contextualizing empathy as their dominant response to the read text. We emphasized that empathy is particularly interesting because it is directed towards a negative character, marked by stubbornness, a character towards which in real life it would be difficult for us to show understanding and compassion. Finally, the overall goal of our affective-narratological reading of Andrić’s novel was not only to look at the emotions of the narrator, characters and readers, but it was an effort to re-examine previous readings of this work, to re-contextualize some insights of earlier scholars who have as their subject the emotions of the hero and readers, to provide new perspectives in the study of this achievement, but also to contribute to the understanding of affective narratology as a theoretical concept in the interpretation of literary works using a concrete example from Serbian literature.

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