ПУТОПИСНA ПРОЗA МИЛAНA ЈОВAНОВИЂA MOPCKOГ
TRAVEL PROSE OF MILAN JOVANOVIĆ MORSKI

Summary/Abstract: The introductory part of the essay sheds light on the entire literary work, life and achievement of Milan Jovanovic Morski (1834—1896), and then the central part of the essay analyzes in detail his travel prose as one of the significant, but forgotten opuses of the Serbian 19th century. The essay specially expounds the features of the travel-writing procedure on the basis of the interpretation of the published books: S mora i sa suva (1892), Tamo amo po Istoku (volume one, 1894, and volume two, 1895), Gore dole po Napulju (1898); and on the basis of the analysis of the travel-writings which remained scattered in the periodicals from that time: „Slike iz Hercegovačkog ustanka” (Glas Crnogorca, 1876), „Teški dani” (Otadžbina, 1881), „Pogled na more” (Videlo, 1884), „Iz daleka” (Brankovo kolo, 1890), „Psevdo-Nabob” (Delo, 1894), „Koncerat na moru” (Brankovo kolo, 1895), „Kap u more” (Bosanska vila, 1896), „Krv nije voda” (Iskra, 1898), „Tragedija i komedija” (Pozorište, 1898). Jovanovic’s travel-writing procedure is characterized by a pronounced symbiosis of the artistic and documentary, i.e. the mixture of narration about events and human destinies which he directly witnessed in his travels (mostly in the period from 1876 to 1882), as well as the mixture of strong traveller’s impressions about far-away regions, countries and persons (from Trieste and the Adriatic Sea, through Alexandria and Mediterranean, to India, Singapore and China), with the historical reminiscences and geographic studies of countries and continents which he encountered.

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