Одрастање као обред преласка у Андрићевим приповеткама о детињству
Growing Up as a Ritual of Transition in Andric’s Stories about Childhood

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of childhood in Andric’s short stories. It is represented as an initiation period in which the young hero introduces himself to raw, stripped-down image of the world, a period in which he begins his maturation and self-realization. Therefore, narrated from a heterodiegetic position of a subject close to the narrative perspective of a hero and from the perspective of an adult hero who directly testifies about his growing up. Young heroes are in the liminal position between the two age stages, and their experiences have characteristics of a transition ritual. They experience painful, sobering knowledge that break down their naive perception of the world (the symbol of a broken window as a symbol of growing up and accepting the bare reality). Alone in their problems and doubts, they are isolated from adults, peers and the environment that rejects and marginalize them. In this paper we dealt with a social marginalization, the first erotic cognition, moral self-determination of an young individual. Remembering the moments of crossing that serves two stages of life, existence and naive world of maturity, reconcile and unite the individual.

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