FROM HISTORY TO LEGEND SEEN BY NENAD LJUBINKOVIĆ
FROM HISTORY TO LEGEND SEEN BY NENAD LJUBINKOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The book by Nenad Ljubinković From the Battle of Kosovo to the Legend of Kosovo was a great choice for the Kosovo Metohija Committee of Matica srpska to publish for its first edition. Because Nenad Ljubinković, both as a scientist and as a man, joins the characteristics that are often separated – true human passion, lucidity and imagination with scientific approach, research systematism and extremely good education. If they are right, and I believe they are, Lotman and Uspensky, claiming that the human brain is organized in such a way that one part of it always belongs to the domain of mythical thinking and the other one to the logically rational one and that poetics is the link that connects these two, Nenad does the ideal job for the man who knows perfectly well what the ancient myth is (moreover, when I speak of myth I refer to a sacred story, not a lie and mystification) – the domain of the legendary – but also the domain of historical, as a system of verified, proven on fact-based sources, and at the same time he has the imagination, passion and courage to make the connections between them. I also find that the author made really precious decision cleaning the texts in the book from the extensive and detailed scientific apparatus they had in the first appearance. So “facilitated”, his book becomes a read that will be gladly read by every educated reader interested in the Kosovo issue, and honestly I cannot imagine anyone who does not care about this issue at this moment.

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