'Basna' Ive Andrića

Abstract

U radu se razmatra žanrovska problematika vezana za basnu i neke kratke pripovedne forme kazivanja poznate u najstarijim književnostima. Termin basna uzima se uslovno jer u Andrićevom tekstu, koji uzimamo kao primer, u dijalogu učestvuju takvi likovi koji su, po pravilu, akteri radnje u basni. Ovaj tekst iz Andrićevih Znakova pored puta obimom znatno prelazi okvire basne. U toj meri da bismo ga mogli označiti kao esej koji je uvećan sredstvima retorske amplifikacije.

We defined one text of Ivo Andrić's in his Znakovi pored puta as a fable, but only provisionally. We might call it a description of an interesting event from a voyage. The description is rhetorically developed in every aspect. The action takes place on a small hilltop beyond a Dalmatian town. The middle, longer part of the text is dedicated to the conversation between the author and his invisible partners. However, they are moisture, a fig leaf, a rock. Formally, then, this text can be interpreted as a fable. Basically, this is a text developed by Andrić as a discourse we might also call an essay. And it was expanded into essay length with the means of rhetoric amplification. This device was well-known and an obligatory task for pupils of ancient rhetoric schools as a practice of condensing or expanding a text.