Funkcija i značaj epizodnih ženskih likova u romanima Ćamila Sijarića
The Function and the Importance of Episodic Female Characters in Ćamil Sijarić’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this analysis of the periodic characters is to show that there are no irrelevant characters in Sijarić’s works, and that even women involved with only a few words or those that just briefly appear have an important role in the development of the whole novel’s structure. Altogether, there are five extremely emphasized female characters in Sijarić’s novels, and they are characterized in different ways, which is often shown in the plot. Their actions influence the plot, its development and often the final outcome of the story. Besides the main characters, there are seven less important female characters, but they are also dynamic and important from the aspect of novelistic development. Many female characters appear just briefly, although marriage, physical love, death, shame, slavery, power or people’s beliefs are very important topics in his novels. Women are often only collocutors, passers-by, reporters, a part of the ambience, or they are only involved just because of the characterization of the main male characters through their internal or external projections. The picture of life with a certain chronology and the poetized novelistic structure are possible because of these formally minor characters. In the story “Good Man”, Sijarić talks about our exaltation with the great and the value of the small things which “(…) are waiting someone, and they know how to wait long…”, and once we notice them we realize the truth about the small spring: “Big sky mirrors in a small mirror of water, wide just as two fists. The sky could be seen in the big water that runs through a tap.” (Sijarić 1991:486) As a conclusion it can be said that the whole beauty of Sijarić’s narration is reflected in these minor female characters.

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