ZWEI JAHRE NACHT EIN ROMAN, DER ZUR KONTINUITÄT UND WANDLUNG DER BOSNISCH HERZEGOWINISCHEN LITERATUR BEITRÄGT
TWO YEARS NIGHT A NOVEL THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OF BOSNIAN HERZEGOVIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The problematization of war or post-war themes can be found in a large number of works that were created after the war. This refers to authors living and working in Bosnia and Herzegovina and those who have replaced their former Bosnian-Herzegovinian existence with another Bosnian-Herzegovinian authors, whose personal and professional commitment today extends far beyond the borders of Bosnia Herzegovina, contribute just as successfully to the cultural heritage of their (former) country. The second group of authors - those who still live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, enrich the literary corpus of this country with their equally tireless literary commitment. Damir Ovčina's novel Two Years Night is a unique requiem for a city, a district, a love story, a dark time. It is a novel that transcends the pure war framework, although war is a constant. The characters in the novel have no names, the author speaks in the first person, he knows the city he is writing about very well. The sentences are short, the lexicon condensed, the syntax rationalized. In the novel, human destinies and tragedies, historical facts and the author's fiction are intertwined.

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