The law of hospitality, stronger than death: On the occasion of the short story of Grigorije Božović 'Stari grmen'

Baština

Vučetić Jasmina¹ 

[1] Institut za srpsku kulturu - Priština/Leposavić;

关键词: stari grmen;    grigorije božović;    hospitality;    theophany;    old serbia;    death postponing;    poem by which the death is postponed;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The holy, unwritten custom of hospitality, lively present in clan-tribunal communities and other primitive cultures, found the echo in the written inheritance of Kolašin's literary bard, Grigorije Božović. In the wide whirl of the detailed and plastic descriptions of rituals of meeting and serving of travellers, as per its associative potentials and significant possibilities against all others, the short story Stari grmen is being singled out. Božović, through the prism of the infallible moral duty of guest respect, is sketching in it the portrait of Rogožnjanski priest Vojkovčanin, who, led by the strength of will is rising from the deathbed in order to meet and serve travellers and soon from their leaving is being disabled again and died. By the trace of that inscription, the author of these lines asked herself whether the postponing of the death, against all ritual like forms of theophany known to science, also may be its less known and forgotten form, and whether there is in folk narration the way to postpone the death?.

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