"The Final Word" by Zlatko Topčić – Authentic Appendage to Romanesque Designing of Outsider Paradigm of Hero in Bosnia - Herzegovinian (Post) War Prose: Autentičan prilog romanesknm dizajniranju autsajderske paradigme junaka u bosanskohercegovačkoj (post)ratnoj prozi

Abstract

The novel's main protagonist is an outsider, humanistically self-aware and a universalistically declared figure. He is an "innerotherness" and the writer wants to design him so that he embodies a kind of moral vitalism to the extent possible in a deadly war. The focus is on a minority view of the so-called meta theme and narrative which, in a mosaic-like consideration of the contemporary literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, may play a prominent role in the process of a permanent reshaping, not just mere confirmation and evoking of personal and collective identities as literary and cultural creations. Inspired by the Bosniak post-genocidal victimology, values of the recent identity (re)configurations, seen from the outsider position of the "neutral other" aim for the integral representation of the collective spirit and for the reader willing to vigorously and deeply re-examine their own opinions. Even though the main protgonist is on trial for war crimes, the focal point of re-examination of the so-called logical order is love – the only area in which he does not function as an outsider – for only love contains some of the mystery against which conjunctures of ideologically silenced and philistine-shaped social reality repel, similarly to Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera.