ИВО АНДРИЋ И ЊЕГОШЕВА ТРАГИЧНА „КОСОВСКА МИСАО“
IVO ANDRIĆ AND NJEGOŠ’S TRAGICAL „KOSOVO THOUGHT“

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts from Njegoš’s spiritual portait outlined in several Andrić’s essay texts, in which one can observe Andrić’s strog autoprojection into the personality of the Montenegrian bishop and the greatest Serbian poet from the 19th century. Njegoš’s life, in Andrić’s description, synthesizes the tragic quality of the Serbian historical struggle based on the faithfulness to the Kosovo myth, tradition of the conscious sacrifice, as it reads in the epical poem „for the honorable cross and golden liberty“. The observation of Nikola Mirković, the author of the study on Andrić’s prose (1938), that Njegoš for Ivo Andrić became a paradigm of a prudent and belligerent attitude under unbearable pressure of the historical and existential evil, we check and confirm with the examples of a series of scenes from historical prose which thematize Serbian resistence to the Ottoman Turks and the Austrian-Hungarian occupier – not only belligerent, but also passive, spritual resistence which implies the denial of „the surperflous needs“ and asceticism of its own kind. „The Story about Salt“ (1955), in which the tendency for spiritual survival and blind instinct for biological survival are confronted, tells about a contradiction, a controversial side of that resistence, personified in the unquestionable oath to adhere to the identity inherited from the anscestors.

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