POETSKI DIJALOG SA KNJIŽEVNIM I KULTURNIM NASLIJEĐEM U ZBIRCI KAD SU GORJELE BOŽIJE KUĆE HUSEINA BAŠIĆA
POETIC DIALOGUE WITH LITERARY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN HUSEIN BAŠIĆ COLLECTION WHEN GOD’S HOUSES WERE ON FIRE

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the cycle of war poetry by Husein Bašić: When God's Houses Were on Fire – Connections and Responses. This collection is a response to the systematic demolition of Bosnian monuments from the Ottoman period, in order to suppress those traces that have shaped the cultural identity of Bosniaks. A dialogue is conducted within the intertextual discourse of the cited epigraphs and tarih (annals, chronicles of history), calligraphically drawn or engraved in sacral and other cultural monuments, which were later destroyed. Their messages of divinity and harmony are confronted by wartime culturecide and ethnocide. Bašić has shares his pain, defends himself and testifis to the insanity of war, through a discursive exchange of quotations, an imitative form and a conceptual adjustment, as well as in conversations with his friends, and victims who were known or unknown to him. The historical grievances that have shaped the mentality, psychology and philosophy of life in the authentic world – opposing its architectural, literary and spiritual heritage to the immorality of destruction and killing – are presented first in the form of a confessional dialogue, then in the language of oral tradition, and mythical-archetypal memory.

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