Prof.dr Arlind Farizi, University of Tetovo, Faculty of Philology, North Macedonia
arlind.farizi@unite.edu.mk
Abstract
Balkan literature is a literature represented by writers who, through their art, have occupied an important place in world literature. The themes that appear in their works are mainly based on the cultural, customary, social and social basis of the Balkans, the course of Balkan life over the centuries, starting from the state of the Balkans under the Turkish occupation, the Balkan wars, the First and Second World Wars, the systems of socialist realization reaching up to modern times. In their works they reflect the Balkan character.
Mesha Selimovic is known for his mastery and unique style of creating unique characters that influenced national and world literature. His characters could not breathe freely in their own world, but they were still characters characterized by their dreams and positive thoughts about the near future. Mesa Selimovic created characters that were prejudiced by others at every step, but this was also a result of the social circle and the influence of foreign cultures, which were already part of their everyday lives and the world knew them through them. His characters were the warriors of life from early morning until late at night, when the enemy had the greatest opportunity to act and achieve his goals, against an oppressed people who constantly tried to subjugate them for a certain period of time. His characters forgot all other things, but they did not forget the right that belonged to them and the love that the enemy tried to take away from them and make them beings without consciousness and without the support that only their family and brother could give them, as we have in this case with the novel in question by the author M. Selimovic.
Volume 11, No.1 (2026): February
ISSN 2661-2666 (Online) International Scientific Journal Monte (ISJM)
ISSN 2661-264X (Print)
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