An all generation novel about one undesired journey of Zulmir Bečević Cover Image

Svegeneracijski roman o jednom neželjenom putovanju Zulmira Bečevića
An all generation novel about one undesired journey of Zulmir Bečević

Author(s): Edina Murtić
Subject(s): Fiction, Bosnian Literature, Croatian Literature, Theory of Literature, Politics and Identity, Wars in Jugoslavia, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: P.E.N. Centar Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Children’s and youth literature; all generation literature; war; Bosnian and Herzegovinian literature in diaspora;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the novel Putovanje započeto od kraja by Zulmir Bečević, the article aims to demonstrate how the thematic complexity encompassing growing up, undesired travelling, leaving home and searching for an identity of which the adult characters are not deprived, becomes transformed through narrative memories into a hybrid text, which goes beyond the common division of literature into children’s and adult books. The article shows how the narrator succeeds in interweaving the story containing a refugee trauma told from a child’s perspective with the world of adults, while not undermining the structure of the text and thematic orientation towards all readers’ groups.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 83-84
  • Page Range: 75-93
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian