Sensuality and Spirituality in the Novel Crossroads by Jasmine Musabegović

Abstract

This essay follows Fatima (Fata), the protagonist of the novel Crossroads within the context of contemporary criticism, which essentially identifies all types of novelistic prose with a certain note of dialogism. In the role of mother and wife, the main character's communicative position directs the idea pattern of the novel from the external to the internal dialogue with herself. Fatima, wrapped in the mantle of an absolute subject, in the general chaos of war and existential paradox, transcends the role of victim and passive witness of the pogrom and through spiritual healing becomes an actor in the struggle. In the cognitive structure of the novel, the author breathes into her protagonist the knowledge that human destiny is almost always subject to the discursive power of intuition. And this undoubted power is given to people as a means and a rare possibility to overcome chaos.