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THE SPIRITUAL QUEST OF PETAR HEKTOROVIĆ
Zaneta SAMBUNJAK
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The article demonstrates how Fishing and the Fishermen`s Discourse by Petar Hektorović is a novel about a knight’s quest for the holy grail. We are basing this theory on the motifs found in the novels about the holy grail (lost grail, questions which haven’t been asked, the renewal of the exhausted forces), in addition to the analysis of various symbols and themes (knights, hermits, castles, etc.). A semiotic study will show that there lies a key connection
between the motifs and symbols, which is thus a virtue. Petar Hektorovic’s search was to realize the union between the mind and the body, between the individual and God, between the individual and the Universe, and between the teacher and the student. The heroes are searching for the virtue while illustrating the problems associated with the apparently innate and imperfect nature of human beings. Dissatisfaction, ignorance, disequilibrium and so on are the causes of misunderstandings and problems in the Petar Hektorovic’s Fishing and theFishermen`s Discourse as well as in the Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach. The characters are dedicated to the search, without the guarantee of an insight about the ending. They decide to take a leap from the rational to the unfamiliar and the irrational. They decided to perfect the virtues and rule over their
desires so that they would, in line with the medieval mystics such as St. Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagit, St. Bernardino of Siena, realize their divine nature.
Ključne riječi
Grail; virtue; quest; mystic; Petar Hektorović; Wolfram von Eschenbach
Hrčak ID:
40865
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Datum izdavanja:
18.6.2009.
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