GOTHIC IMAGINATION IN ANDRICʼS SHORT STORIES

Abstract

The paper analyzes the constitutive elements of Ivo Andric’s gothic fiction. Gothic chronotopes, motifs, vividity, and characters appear in some of his narrative works, creating unified gothic narratives (The Ivory Woman, The Excursion) or stories containing gothic elements (In the Camp). It examines the ways in which they are shaped, their function, effects, psychological and ideological implications. It also draws a few conclusions regarding the position that these gothic-inspired fictional worlds take in Andric’s narrative opus. The paper is based on a firm belief that the latent gothic narrative tradition also had a significant echo and role in enriching Andric’s ’’synthetic’’ poetics, his vision of the world, human nature and history, which is pointed out in the given interpretations of the
selected short stories.