Divisions as a Form of Human Alienation (about the drama Ognjište by Zarko Komanin) Cover Image

Podjele kao vid ljudskog otuđenja (o drami Ognjište Žarka Komanina)
Divisions as a Form of Human Alienation (about the drama Ognjište by Zarko Komanin)

Author(s): Blagota Mrkaić
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Theory of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: divisions; way out of alienation; homeland; tragic consequences; injustice; single-mindedness; chosen death;

Summary/Abstract: Divisions like expressions of human alienation in the drama entitled Ognjište by Žarko Komanin refers to the period of World War II happening in the writer’s country. The war and revolutionary reality were full of tragic events and many wider social consequences. In this book the tragedy is the most evident in the destiny of the girl Jovana who foufought against injustice having found out that her brother had been buried in a traditional way in the cemetery in her own country. When she didn’t succeed she killed herself which writer describes not only as her own misfortune but as misfortune of her own people.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 191-197
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Montenegrine