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Śmierć, nieobecność i samotność - motyw traumatyzującej utraty matki w zbiorze opowiadań Lejli Kalamujić "Zovite me Esteban"
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motive of deathmother-daughter relationshipwomen’s writing in Bosna and HerzegovinaLejla KalamujićCall me Estebandescription
Lejla Kalamujić (bom 1980) is a Bosnian writer from Sarajevo and the author of two collections of stories: Anatomy of a Smile (2009) and Call me Esteban (2015). The paper presents the autobiographical stories collected in the second book, in which the most important theme is death, especially the premature death of a mother. The aim of the article is to show the motive of the loss of a mother. The writer uses first-person narration and the protagonist is a woman named Lejla, a type of alter ego for her. The stories are written from different points of view and from different time perspectives. The intertextual themes in the book are the most interesting ones and have real artistic value (there are references to be Almodóvar, Marquez, Kafka, Bishop, Miljkovic and others). The writer has a way of writing about the pain connected with death that is useful for experiencing belated mourning.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis Slavica Wratislaviensia |