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Gruban Malić

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Gruban Malić is a fictional character and the anti-hero in Miodrag Bulatović's novel Heroj na magarcu ili Vreme srama (Hero on a Donkey). Scholar Vasa D. Mihailovic has described the character as a "tragicomical anti-hero" and is "a combination of Don Quixote and Soldier Schweik, without the sad resignation of the former and the wisecracking of the latter."

Malić received media attention due to a 1995 hoax that began with Yugoslavian war correspondent Nebojša Jevrić began telling an American journalist about a war criminal by the name of Gruban Malić, who had committed the most rapes while serving as a guard at the Omarska camp. The story of Malić spread and culminated in Judge Richard Goldstone and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia including the character on a list of Serbian war criminals. After the list was made public the hoax was quickly detected but the charges against the character were not dropped until 1998. Jevrić later published a book about the hoax, Hero on a Donkey Goes to The Hague.

References

  1. Mihailovich, Vasa D. (1966). "Heroj na magarcu ili Vreme srama (Book Review)". Books Abroad. 40 (2): 226–227. doi:10.2307/40120721. JSTOR 40120721.
  2. The Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities. University of Michigan. 1987. p. 63. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. Mihailovich, Vasa D. (1968). "The Eerie World of Miodrag Bulatović". The Slavic and East European Journal. 12 (3): 325–326. doi:10.2307/304016. JSTOR 304016.
  4. ^ Ratzlav-Katz, Nissan (29 September 2009). "When Goldstone Indicted a Fictional Character (and a Dead Man)". Israel National News. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  5. Jokic, Aleksandar (2004). "Genocidalism". The Journal of Ethics. 8 (3): 291–292. doi:10.1023/B:JOET.0000031068.85984.da. JSTOR 25115796.

Footnotes

  1. Tihomir Brajović: Autsajderska paradigma i rat
  2. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: CASE NO. IT-95-4-I
  3. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: CC/PIU/314-E


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