From a reading devoted monk to an idealist prompter: the Serbian Quixotes across the centuries

Authors

  • Jasna Stojanović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.20.2.337-353

Keywords:

Don Quixote, reception, Serbian literature, character

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the characters of several Serbian novels published from the Enlightenment to the present day, whose main characters show obvious resemblances with Cervantes’ Don Quixote: Dositej Obradović´s Život i priključenija (1783), Jovan Sterija Popović´s Roman bez romana (1838), various novels of Jakov Ignjatović (Večiti mladoženja, 1878; Vasa Rešpekt, 1875; Milan Narandžić, 1860-1862), and Sančova verzija by Ratomir Damjanović (1999). We analyze their personalities, pointing out the similarities with their model and then exploring the differences or particularities emanating from either the author’s style, the period of its creation and/or the poetics of the Serbian literature. Our goal is to investigate the manner and the level in which the Cervantine legacy has been creatively transformed and what constant characteristics of the personality of Don Quixote have resisted the passage of time.

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Author Biography

Jasna Stojanović

Jasna Stojanović es profesora titular de Literatura Española en la Facultad de Filología de Belgrado. Es autora de las monografías Cervantes en la literatura serbia (2005) y El teatro español del barroco (2009). Es coordinadora del libro Don Quijote en la cultura serbia y de los volúmenes Don Quijote 1605-2005 (con M. Šukalo) y Novela española e hispanoamericana (en coedición). Su área de interés profesional es la Literatura Española de los Siglos de Oro (teatro, novela, obra de Cervantes y su recepción en la literatura serbia), las relaciones entre las letras españolas y serbias, así como la teoría, la práctica y la crítica de la traducción.

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Published

31.12.2012

How to Cite

Stojanović, J. (2012). From a reading devoted monk to an idealist prompter: the Serbian Quixotes across the centuries. Verba Hispanica, 20(2), 337–353. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.20.2.337-353

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Literature

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