In a Romanesque Maze of Enes Karić

• Main Author: Irma Marić
• Format: Article
• Language: Bosnian
• Published: University of Tuzla, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2021-05-01
• Series: Društvene i Humanističke Studije
• Subjects: religion; identity; culture; ecumenism; narration; novels with a thesis
• Online Access: http://www.dhs.ff.untz.ba/index.php/home/article/view/510

In the romancer magnum opus of Enes Karić, consisting of five novels – Pjesme divljih ptica (2009), Jevrejsko groblje (2011), Slučajno čovjek (2013), Boje višnje (2017) i Bogovo roblje (2020) – questions arise from humanistic and Islamic theological-philosophical perspective considering harmony and disharmony from the internal, that is, spiritual transformation and external establishing of the identity. In the poetics of Karić’s narrative fiction, we can recognize the tradition of Andrić-Selimović model of narration, where we can follow spirituality and knowledge through road signs of central protagonists of his prose. These two fundamental categories rise over and integrate status and other special features of Karić’s characters into believable structural-compositional units. And all of them are somehow spherically connected; they are united by the author’s tendency to use their life actions to verify his ecumenical, intercultural and interreligious thoughts.