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Naturalistički ekspresionizam Hasana Kikića ili “ljepote psovke”
The Naturalistic Expressionism of Hasan Kikić or “the Beauties of the Curse”

Author(s): Muhidin Džanko
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: J.U. Javna biblioteka »Alija Isaković«, Gradačac
Keywords: Journal “Putokaz”; Hasan Kikic (1905-1942); Bosnia and Herzegovina’s literature between two world Wars; expressionism in literature; social literature; Zija Dizdarević (1916-1942); naturalistic expressionism; intellectual engagement

Summary/Abstract: Literary study follows the development of Hasan Kikić’s poetics, from his folkloristic and expressionistic phase, to the shift into engaged, social literature. Kikić’s naturalistic expressionism, alongside the lyrical expressionism of Zijo Dizadarević, is an extraordinary literary particularity in Bosniak literature corpus. Especial accent is put on the social and anti-war component in Kikić’s prose, as an expression of intellectual engagement.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 23-24
  • Page Range: 190-195
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bosnian