Motiv žene u Andrićevim pripovijetkama
Motive of Woman in Andrić’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about woman’s motive and about possibilities and types of their realization within Andrić’s novels, recognizing and explaining them on concrete examples. Realization of these motive, very common for Andrić, is happening in several different and complex variants, among which, common characteristics can be found. Motive of a woman is one of the most common for Andrić. It can be witnessed in titles of novels where woman characters can be found. For him woman represents obsessive subject that breaks down into several appearing variations. For him woman is a sort of fateful temptation. With this motive, it is most commonly linked to a body and beauty which he experiences as punishment and as greatest gift, at a same time, which faithfully determines the woman. In his vision, woman usually suffers, she is unhappy and lonely, quite and hidden, deprived of love and understanding of a man and usually ends with tragedy. She is mainly the victim and object. Even those women that are full of angry and spite, that take certain actions, getting out of expected template behavior and habits, whether they rebel or revenge, they rarely escape from such destiny and even less rare they find their happiness. Woman in Andrić’s novels is the main catalyst of all events, even when she is presented as presage and vision. She is present in all things, events and around them.

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