Ahmed Nurudin i Vojtech Had – i naše vrijeme
Ahmed Nurudin and Vojtech Had – and Our Time

Summary/Abstract: Numerous similarities between novels Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic and Jesuits by Jirij Sotola have been noticed by Ljudevit Bauer in the Literary Review back in 1970. Their common theme discusses the fate of man, representative of the religious order, dervish and Jesuits, who is in the conflict with his surroundings as well as with himself, the one who is torn between his own inclinations on one side and institutional, societal and church conventions, dogmas and restrictions on the other. Both novels tell the story of a human life, enquiring, existential powerlessness, inability to endure relativity of life and the fight with dark demons who lie in the foundations of every human personality, something which we all can relate to. Dwelling on their own thinking and their (burdened) consciousness, the main characters question their own time, and then, their analyses and doubts are no different from ours. The text’s main premise is a detrimental effect of a religious form on a life of an individual who is a part of it. The man is a victim of an order who has suppressed any possibility of his free life. The character of the religious orders can be presumed as repressive, both as an ideology as well as on personal and intimate plane. The novels speak of a past; however, they simultaneously confirm many negativities of our contemporary time. Such are the ideological conflicts, power struggles, moral instability and the feelings of imperil and absurdum. The consequences are dehumanization of a man, denial of humanism and the right for a free choice and the tragic alienation which aptly describes current times and the robot in it, the modern man.

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