Mustapha Magyar as Posttraumatic Prose
Journal: Croatica et Slavica Iadertina
Year: 2023

This paper deals with a somewhat different, and hopefully, more meaningful approach to the analysis of Andrić's famous short story Mustapha Magyar from 1923. That story “from the Turkish times” was justifiably declared one of Andrić's most successful short stories, and is often characterized by the attributes of his most enigmatic or mystical, even darkest text. It is often defined by genre as an expressionist character short story with a tragic anti-hero, with which, according to the majority o