The narrative that constitutes “This Time Now” by Semezdin Mehmedinović Cover Image

Narativ kojim je ispisano “Ovo vrijeme sada” Semezdina Mehmedinovića
The narrative that constitutes “This Time Now” by Semezdin Mehmedinović

Author(s): Fatima Bećarević
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Izdavačka kuća »Monos« d.o.o
Keywords: narrative; time; memory; exile;

Summary/Abstract: The narrative world of Semezdin Mehmedinović has been attracting the attention of readers both in our contry and abroad for years, providing a specific, denseky woven prose in which the focus is on characters, individuals, and great historical events are set aside and serve as a reminder and memory of all that happened. The aim of this paper is to point out the place that make Semezdin Mehmedinovic narrative specific. In a sense, stylisticlly and tematically, the book “This Time Now” is a sequel to the novel “Me’med, Red Bandana and Snowflake” and an explanation of events and characters that were importrant for creating the narrative identities of individuals. Told in the form of stories, essays, fragments and drawings, the stories puhblished in the book “This Time Now” represent a world in which a generational memory of a group of artist who spent the best years of their lives in Sarajevo and still live there has been preserved.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 145-152
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian