Odnos Karasovih portreta u romanu Omer-Paša Latas Ive Andrića i teorije 'otvorenog dela' Umberta Eka

Abstract

What is being examined in this work is the openness of meanining in the novel named Omer-pasha Latas by Ivo Andrić, paricularly in the motifs of Karas’ art. According to the views of Eco and Andrić, art is universal, and what differentiate one kind of art from another are only the means of expression. In this syncretism, an artist and interpretator become associates in the realisation of the intentio operis principle (which entails the tendency of the work itself towards the universum of meanings). The drama of the creation of an open work is showing through the portraits and sketches of Karas