Individual and collective overview of source of tragedy in the novels written by Ivo Andrić The Damned Yard and Bosnian Chronicle Cover Image

Individualni i kolektivni presjek izvora tragičnosti u Andrićevim romanima Prokleta avlija i Travnička hronika
Individual and collective overview of source of tragedy in the novels written by Ivo Andrić The Damned Yard and Bosnian Chronicle

Author(s): Olga Vojičić Komatina
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Serbian Literature
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: individual and collective; source of tragicity; Bosnian chronotopos; aliens; chronotope of alienation;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the interpretation of individual and collective sources of tragedy in the novels written by Ivo Andric The Damned Yard and Bosnian Chronicle. All the characters depicted in the novels belong to the chronotopos of Bosnia, and that affiliation is twofold - some protagonists belong to truly nationalized Bosnian offspring, by birth and a faith, and some are foreigners who, due to socio-historical circumstances, find themselves in the Bosnian cultural limbo. The belonging to a country which is not used neither to the economic progress, nor social changes, predisposes the collective tragicity of the characters, Bosnian inhabitants. Resistance to canons and various conditions of behavior and life creates individual confidential lines in their lives. Such a concept of life complicates the tragic situation in which they are tragic and those with Bosnian and non-Bosnian origin, both of them and others in a wider sense, are strangers in a specific chronotope of alienation.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 227-236
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian