O SELIMOVIĆEVOJ TVRĐAVI: SEMIOTIKA LJUBAVI I NALOG INSTITUCIJE
ON TVRĐAVA (THE FORTRESS) BY SELIMOVIĆ: THE SEMIOTICS OF LOVE AND THE MANDATE OF THE INSTITUTION
Author(s): Mirela Berbić-ImširovićSubject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics, Comparative Study of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: love; house/home; system; Utopia; identity;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses Tvrđava (The Fortress), the 1970 novel by Selimović. The fortress is a chronotope of refuge as semiotics of love, and a dangerously utopian place at the same time, which, while providing security, can also cause a certain pauperization of the individual. Observing this chronotope on the intimate-public line, i.e. on the love – institutional mandate relation, we will discover not only its subversive potential, but the subversive potential of other structural components of the narrative. An intensified light on such an interpretation can be shed by comparing Tvrđava to the other novel by Selimović, Derviš i smrt, 1966 (Death and the Derwish).
Journal: Bosanski jezik
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 73-85
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Bosnian