Sažetak

 „Pripovijedi ne postoje bez junaka i bez pripovjedača. Uspomenu na osječkog OSjetnika OSvojskog i junaka ove poetizirane proze – Eugena Savojskog, ispripovijedao je sam junak. Ili točnije, kako bi se izbjegle zabune, pripovijed je ispripovijedala junakova misao.“

(Iz romana.)

 

Princ Eugen od Savoje i Pijemonta, koji je svoj književni život u opusu Jasne Horvat započeo u romanu Bizarij 2009. godine, deset godina poslije OSvojio je vlastitu priču i postao OSvojski. Jer osvajanje je, kako svjedoči povjesnica, bilo pravom prirodom toga naobraženog austrijskoga vojskovođe (1663. – 1736.) iz sporedne linije kuće Savoja, poznatoga po zaslugama u ratovima protiv Osmanlija kraj Beča, Pešte i Beograda te protiv Francuza u Pijemontu, po pobjedama nad Osmanlijama kraj Sente, Petrovaradina i Beograda koje su označile kraj njihovih osvajanja u Europi.

 

Kao hrabar i smion ratnik tim je pobjedama postavio klasične uzore europskoj strategiji. Podrijetlom Talijan, a po odgoju Francuz svoj je vojnički i ratnički genij darovao Austriji. Za tom je usložnjenom prirodom jedne povijesne osobnosti, već provučenom kroz filtar vlastita književna teksta kojim je definirala svoju OS i prostor prepoznavanja, Jasna Horvat ponovno posegnula kako bi se okušala u novom ograničenju kao moranju svoje oulipovske poetike. Poslala je Eugena od Savoje da iz osame svoga baranjskog Belvederea krene u novi osvajački pohod – ovaj put za nju osvajajući sebe – i prepustila mu odabir strategije kojom će od Savojskoga postati OSvojski  i tako ju još jednom, deset godina poslije, vratiti u prostor vlastita prepoznavanja.

Milica Lukić

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Abstract

 

"There are no stories without a hero and without a storyteller. The memory of the Osijek-born OSjetnik OSvojski and the hero of this poetised prose – Eugene of Savoy – is narrated by the hero himself. Or more precisely, to avoid confusion, the story is narrated by the hero’s own thought."
(From the novel.)

Prince Eugene of Savoy and Piedmont, who began his literary life in the oeuvre of Jasna Horvat in the novel Bizarij(2009), ten years later OSvojed (conquered) his own story and became OSvojski. For conquest, as history attests, was indeed the true nature of this erudite Austrian military commander (1663–1736) from a cadet branch of the House of Savoy, renowned for his campaigns against the Ottomans near Vienna, Buda, and Belgrade, as well as against the French in Piedmont. His victories at Senta, Petrovaradin, and Belgrade marked the end of Ottoman incursions into Europe.

As a brave and daring warrior, he set classical standards for European military strategy. Italian by birth and French by upbringing, he gifted his military and strategic genius to Austria. Drawn once again to the complex nature of this historical figure—already filtered through the literary lens by which she had defined her own OS and space of recognition—Jasna Horvat returned to him in order to challenge herself with a new constraint as a necessity of her Oulipian poetics. She sent Eugene of Savoy from the solitude of his Baranja-based Belvedere into a new campaign—this time to conquer himself on her behalf—and entrusted him with the choice of strategy through which he would transform from Savoyski into OSvojski, thereby returning her, once again and ten years later, to the realm of her own recognition.

Milica Lukić