Андрићева тематизација бомбардовања Београда
Andrić’s Stories about the Bombardment of Belgrade

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the text we start from the fact that aviation experience after First World War does not only appear in the thematic and poetic sphere, but as well as a surmise of a novel method of killing. The novelty becomes apparent when the aviation experience becomes supplanted by the experience of bombarding (using bombers) as a milestone of an utterly different kind of war. In this new war, the difference between the front and the rear, soldiers and civilians, is entirely lost. In the second part of the text, the research focuses on Andrić’s experience of bombardment. Firstly, we analyze his Berlin diary entries during the Allied bombardment in 1940, and secondly, two short stories – “Slučaj Stevana Karajana” and “S ljudima” – originating from the time just after Second World War, thematizing the Allied bombardment of Belgrade. The conclusion of the analysis is that Andrić sets the two stories in counterpoint by distinguishing two separate ways of relating to the act of bombardment: one that leads to fear, worry, and loneliness, i.e. metonymies of death, and a second one leading to people, the collective, in which man manages to preserve his humanity under shelling.

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