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Die Generation der "Schlangentöter". Das Kriegsmotiv in den Erzählungen von Jurica Pavičić

In the two short stories, Der Schlangentöter (The Snake Slayer) and Der Schutzengel (The Guardian Angel), published in German under the title Helden (Heroes), the Croatian writer Jurica Pavičić (Split, 1968) deals with the topic of war in Croatia (1991-1995). In his short stories, which deal with the war and its consequences in different ways, Pavičić introduces us to protagonists whose lives are irretrievably changed by the war. Even if they survive the war and apparently get the opportunity to continue their existences, they can not escape the destructive consequences of the war and the war trauma experienced will forever mark their lives. The title The Snake Slayer is indicative of a generation of young men who become soldiers overnight. Their previous identity, which was based on origin, education and belonging to a particular (sub)culture, becomes irrelevant and superseded by a collective identity. In order to survive, they are forced to adapt and accept the fact that war and the experience of war abolish the right to humanity and that death loses the gravity of a human tragedy and has merely statistical value. The generation of snake killers first of all sees themselves confronted with the true nature of the war as one of the most terrible events human beings can experience and, finally, with all the new challenges post-war life holds for them. In The Guardian Angel, the author describes a war veteran clinging to the war pathos, unable to accept other behavioral models and firmly convinced that his truth is the only relevant one. In a vicious circle of memories, self- pity, and mythomania, the former soldier experiences a serious disappointment, and is unable to build his identity outside the war experience. The author researches the meaning of the war in the lives of the so-called ordinary people, who would have lived their peaceful, more or less happy lives if the war had not captured their generation. His characters are victims of historical-political conditions, forever labeled as the generation of snake killers, as people who have somewhere lost the right to happiness. Pavičić renounces any heroic discourse and objectively considers the position of his characters, far from ideological phantasms and identity-forming symbols of Croatian post-war society.

Jurica Pavičić ; Erzählungen ; Kriegsmotiv ; Schlangentöter ; Schutzengel

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