THE DICHOTOMY OF THE WORLD IN THE DRAMA WORKS OF ALIJA ISAKOVIC Cover Image

DIHOTOMIJA SLIKE SVIJETA U DRAMSKOM STVARALAŠTVU ALIJE ISAKOVIĆA
THE DICHOTOMY OF THE WORLD IN THE DRAMA WORKS OF ALIJA ISAKOVIC

Author(s): Amra Memić
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: ISLAMSKI PEDAGOŠKI FAKULTET U BIHAĆU
Keywords: Alija Isakovic; the dichotomy of the world; the two present tenses; drama; poetry; To; Generalijum; Bosniak folk ballad Hasanaginica; dialogues; monologues; stage directions; existentialism;

Summary/Abstract: Reader can perceive in all the dramas of Alija Isakovic images of the past and the modern, historical and contemporary world. However, in either case, Isakovic seeks the unchanging image of human duplicity. He makes an effort in marking the extremes of human existence, a ceaseless clash of creational and destructive principles, which we can equally recognize in the cosmic and anthropological, in the past and in the present. He gives an analytical outline of reflection in the human actions and objects and the phenomena around them. These contours harmonicaly blend into a more or less complete and coherent motive, creating a bundle of analytical data without finished synthesis, with impersonal open pictures for the reader's commitment and conclusion. As a playwrighter (To, Generalijum, Hasanaginica...), Isakovic blossoms during the late seventies and early eighties of the last century. He belongs to the group of playwrighters who at that time investigated and examined the modern theater and its influences. Peering into the past while corresponding with modernity, Isakovic is linked to our local Bosniak literary, folk and cultural traditions, which he, therefore, forms in a new and original way, drawing out a universal message and meaning.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 257-274
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bosnian