ZNAČAJ ISTORIJE U NAŠEM SAVREMENOM DRUŠTVU
THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY IN OUR CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The article is the author's lecture given on the 20th of September 1974 at the assembly of the Society of Historians of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zenica. Đurđev quotes as a motto a passage from Goethe’s WESTÖSTLICHER DIWAN, where the idea is expressed that a man has to know history, and that he remains ignorant and inexperienced if he does not know it. After that Đurđev quotes a very famous Yugoslav writer, Mesa Selimović, who in his essay Novel and Literature, claims that history does not teach anybody anything. The meaning of the whole essay is in the claim that history allows us to understand ourselves through literature.

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