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The Happiness of Sisyphus or the Need to Revise one’s Own Engagement: The Case of Ivan Lovrenović

Data publikacji: 27.03.2024

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, s. 231 - 245

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.23.021.19440

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Dominika Kaniecka
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
, Polska
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1754-8171 Orcid
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Tytuły

The Happiness of Sisyphus or the Need to Revise one’s Own Engagement: The Case of Ivan Lovrenović

Abstrakt

The subject of my analysis is a review of the public engagement of Sarajevo writer and intellectual, Ivan Lovrenović. I am primarily interested in his transition from engaged interventionism to explaining the milieu of postbellum Bosnia and Herzegovina, evident in his writings, and his self-reflection on his own particular engagement. Essential for my analysis is the moment of the author’s transition from a phase of active participation in the public debate regarding the form of the state, i.e., Bosnia and Herzegovina and its cultural community, to the position of an outsider by choice, i.e., withdrawing to the sphere of “good solitude”. This stage, however, does not mean resignation from the attitude of the committed intellectual and complete abandonment of activism for change within the social and political space. In my opinion, Lovrenović does not turn away from the world in which he lives, nor does he rid himself of a sense of responsibility. Rather, he gradually shifts from journalism towards literary fiction. The main interpretative material spurring the present analysis is Lovrenović’s Sizifova sreća [Sisyphus’s Happiness, 2018], which overall offers an interesting example of the revision of his public engagement, while a broader timeframe of my reflections covers the years 1994–2018.

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Informacje

Informacje: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, s. 231 - 245

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

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The Happiness of Sisyphus or the Need to Revise one’s Own Engagement: The Case of Ivan Lovrenović

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1754-8171

Dominika Kaniecka
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
, Polska
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Publikacja: 27.03.2024

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Dominika Kaniecka is a literary scholar, Croatian and Slavonic studies specialist from the Institute of Slavic Studies at Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include issues related to Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature and culture, community practices in the post-Yugoslav region, the performative potential of contemporary social and political life, and broadly understood engaged humanities. She is the author of the monograph Narrating the Nation: Croatian Identity According to August Šenoa (Kraków 2014), as well as of several academic papers and literary translations. She is a member and cofounder of the Inter-institutional Post-Yugoslav Area Research Group at the University of Warsaw, a member of the PAU Commission on Slavic Culture, and the Polish Commission for Balkan History and Culture (AIESEE).

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Dominika, Kaniecka. "The Happiness of Sisyphus or the Need to Revise one’s Own Engagement: The Case of Ivan Lovrenović" Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. Mar 27, 2024. https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/the-happiness-of-sisyphus-or-the-need-to-revise-ones-own-engagement-the-case-of-ivan-lovrenovic