PROBLEM (NE)MOGUĆNOSTI DEFINISANJA IDENTITETA U TRAVNIČKOJ HRONICI I PROKLETOJ AVLIJI IVA ANDRIĆA
THE PROBLEM OF THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF DEFINING IDENTITY IN ANDRIĆ'S TRAVNIČKA HRONIKA AND PROKLETA AVLIJA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of defining identity, both ethnic and confessional, in the novels Travnička hronika and Prokleta avlija by Ivo Andrić. We will try to decode and present the dynamics of the development of the writer's vision in terms of this existential and ontological question, it being most subtly clarified in the two novels created within the span of ten years. The emphasis is on the analysis of the existential as well as metaphysical laws of two opposing worlds, the East and the West, which, paradoxically, approach the realization of otherness in the protagonist of the novel Prokleta avlija, the young Ćamil, and the seemingly minor character of Travnička hronika, Giovanni Mario Cologna. In order to understand the otherness and the Other as clearly as possible, the work mainly relies on Levinas' philosophy of transcendence, totality and responsibility for the other. In addition, the phenomenon of resistance to the finitude of being is emphasized as a kind of poetic sign that captures the narrative reality of both novels.

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