Omerpaša Latas i Osman: generirajuće jezgro između fikcije i fakcije
Omerpaša Latas and Osman: a generating nucleus between fiction and faction

Summary/Abstract: Ivo Andrić's unfinished novel Omerpaša Latas sets out from a historical framework in which the historiographical and chronological sequence of the military-political mission of the imperial serasker Omerpaša Latas is outlined. However, this literary form did not remain structured as a biographical fiction about the historical campaign of the imperial serasker. In this unfinished novel, two approaches, chronicled and biographical, are equally visible and intertwined. Against the powerful serasker, the narrator juxtaposes the character of a sick and disorderly young man, Osman, as a distant observer through whose consciousness the author evaluates his actions. The author's construction creates, in Barthian terms, a referential illusion of the historical versus the ahistorical or the historical within the ahistorical, just as Omerpaša and Osman were literary brought to life in a specific relationship of confirmation and denial. The aim of the work is to describe the relationships in which Osman and Omerpaša represent the generating nucleus from which another image, another's world, grows. They are opposite each other like a reflection in a mirror seen by the inner eye of the author. This was achieved, among other things, by the monologue form, from which the constructions of internal fictions emerge in turn.

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