Zlatko Topčić has built the identity of a novelist who openly tackles new techniques and literary procedures in the wake of postmodern ways of writing. This is supported by the novels created during ...and after the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the shadows and traumas of the war are deep in the elements of the text, and the characters are caught in its whirlwind in different ways, prisoners of traumatic conditions even in the time when the storm of events subsides, but remains a long sediment of painful experiences. This text aims to show how a great historical event - the Sarajevo assassination - is artistically transposed in the novel 6/28/1914 (novel, revision), and how the fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war in the period 1992-1995 can be traced through its outlines. With a collection of characters, historical and fictional, narrative organization of space and time, intertextuality, and an ironic relationship with metanarratives, Topčić creates a text as a product of personal stories from which a novelistic mosaic of historical events is created.
Alija Nametak and Almin Kaplan are two writers of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature. Their prose work is defined by two separate historical periods. Alija Nametak`s prose originated in the 1930s, ...retaining a realistic poetic framework of storytelling and thematically entering into historical strife, folklore, and social relations amalgamated into the patriarchal way of life of Bosniak rural communities in Herzegovina. On the other hand, Almin Kaplan creates in the cultural climate of the first decades of the 21st century, combining poetic and prose expression in his literary work. Kaplan's literary world built on post-war actuality realistically depicts Bosnian society and convincingly portrays a man sandwiched between the magma of dreams and harsh reality, at the crossroads of personal and collective values, in a time of economic transition, unemployment, broken ethical values, and new globalist movements, but still burdened by the war trauma of the 1990s. Although they are separated by almost the whole century, Alija Nametak and Almin Kaplan can be connected by certain similarities that will be the backbone of this research: woven into the Herzegovinian ambiance with all its geographical, historical, social, and cultural conditions, both draw their literary motifs from the socio-cultural landscape of Herzegovina, which is a stage for small human stories and universal truths. The research corpus of this paper will be based on the novel Meho (2019) and the collection of short stories Dubravske priče (2020) by Almin Kaplan and several short stories from the collection Trava zaboravka (1966/1998) by Alija Nametak.
Faruk Šehić je jedan od najpoznatijih, najpriznatijih i najboljih savremenih bosanskohercegovačkih i slavenskih pisaca koji je putem prevoda, do sada prvenstveno njegovog slavnog romana Knjiga o Uni ...(2011) na mnoge jezike, već afirmisan i u svjetskoj književnosti. Bogatstvo i visprenost njegove književnosti, kako proze, tako i poezije, u kombinaciji s jednostavnošću njegovog bića, onom kompleksnom jednostavnošću kakvu mogu imati samo vrhunski intelektualci, i to čovjek koji misli – koji je, dakle, prvo čovjek, a onda biće koje misli, za razliku od pukog mislioca, kako je to o američkom učenjaku rekao američki pisac Ralph Waldo Emerson u svom govoru održanom na Harvardu, 31. 8. 1837. godine, a što se može odnositi i na univerzalnog intelektualca – već su uveliko obilježili bosanskohercegovačku i post-jugoslovensku regionalnu književnost i pojavnost. Do sada je objavio sljedeće knjige: Pjesme u nastajanju (2000), Hit depo (2003), Pod pritiskom (2004), Transsarajevo (2006), Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina (2007), Knjiga o Uni i Moje rijeke (2014). Dobitnik je cijenjenih nagrada i priznanja. Između ostaloga, za roman Knjiga o Uni dobio je nagradu „Meša Selimović“ za najbolji roman objavljen na govornom području Bosne i Hercegovine, Srbije, Hrvatske i Crne Gore u 2011. godini, a zatim i nagradu Europske unije za književnost – EUPL 2013. Za zbirku poezije Moje rijeke dobio je nagradu „Risto Ratković“ za najbolju objavljenu knjigu pjesama u Srbiji, BiH, Hrvatskoj i Crnoj Gori za 2013-2014. godinu i Godišnju nagradu Društva pisaca BiH za najbolju knjigu objavljenu u 2014.
Alija Nametak and Almin Kaplan are two writers of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature. Their prose work is defined by two separate historical periods. Alija Nametak`s prose originated in the 1930s, ...retaining a realistic poetic framework of storytelling and thematically entering into historical strife, folklore, and social relations amalgamated into the patriarchal way of life of Bosniak rural communities in Herzegovina. On the other hand, Almin Kaplan creates in the cultural climate of the first decades of the 21st century, combining poetic and prose expression in his literary work. Kaplan's literary world built on post-war actuality realistically depicts Bosnian society and convincingly portrays a man sandwiched between the magma of dreams and harsh reality, at the crossroads of personal and collective values, in a time of economic transition, unemployment, broken ethical values, and new globalist movements, but still burdened by the war trauma of the 1990s. Although they are separated by almost the whole century, Alija Nametak and Almin Kaplan can be connected by certain similarities that will be the backbone of this research: woven into the Herzegovinian ambiance with all its geographical, historical, social, and cultural conditions, both draw their literary motifs from the socio-cultural landscape of Herzegovina, which is a stage for small human stories and universal truths. The research corpus of this paper will be based on the novel Meho (2019) and the collection of short stories Dubravske priče (2020) by Almin Kaplan and several short stories from the collection Trava zaboravka (1966/1998) by Alija Nametak.
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