Нихилистичка утопија зла: (голооточко искуство "логорског човека", Ивана Катића, у Времену власти Добрице Ћосића)
The nihilist utopia of evil: (The Goli Otok experience of the “camp man”, Ivan Katić, in the novel A Time of Power by Dobrica Ćosić)
Сажетак: Полазећи од идеје да је суштина Ћосићевих романа историософска, али пре свега антрополошка, у раду се кроз представљање доследно остварене религије нихилизма (голооточко страдање Ивана Катића) трага за одговором на питање које и сâм писац сматра фундаменталним: да ли човек „све може бити и све мора бити?“ (у токовима историје). При томе се у духу пишчевог изразитог антрополошког песимизма (који се „уздиже“ до нихилизма) констатује да је са обоготворењем историје прошлог века наступила смрт Човека.
Summary: Ćosić’s oeuvre in its entirety testifies to the inseparability of man from history, that is, to the fact that human nature is directly conditioned by its actions. As an active participant and witness to history, Ćosić seeks an answer to the typical historiosophical question: What is History, i. e. epistemological or gnostic: What is Truth, but as a writer, he assumes with these questions the essential, most important, ontological, which crowns and devises all his literary searches and re-examinations that read: What is Man? The essential question of the first book of the novel A Time of Power: Can Man “be everything and must he be everything?” (in the course of history) must be viewed in the philosophical-anthropological key not only as evidence against man, but as evidence in defence of man, in defence of that “little man in him”, which justifies the meaning of human existence in history. Focusing on the tragic personality of Ivan Katić, tragic in the oldest, ancient sense of the word, Ćosić from the original idea of a novel about a superfluous man, comes to a novel about a camp man, because he is more frequent and typical of the twentieth century, marked by suffering and camps, trying so as to defend the dignity and honor of man in the jaws of history. Moving these boundaries for the reader, however, comes less from Ćosić’s experience of visiting Goli Otok prisoners, and more from what his hero, his camp man Ivan Katić, tells about his suffering on that island of hell to his sister Milena, where in the most cruel psychophysical methods “Party traitors”, “Stalinists”, “Trotskyists”... were tortured. Spiritus movens of the consistently realized religion of nihilism was absurd as such, that is, “the annulment” of man, his personality, his spiritual identity. In this sense, it would be more accurate to speak of dystopia than utopia, since the idea of evil – through the destruction of faith (in God, man, higher meaning, a better and brighter future), that is, to express nihilism – is consistently and “successfully” implemented: through deification of history the death of a man occurred.
srpski
2022
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Кључне речи: Човек, историја, голооточко страдање, утопија, дистопија, зло, антрополошки песимизам, нихилизам, философски дискурс.
Keywords: man, history, Goli Otok suffering, utopia, dystopia, evil, anthropological pessimism, nihilism, philosophical discourse.