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A Deserter at the Gate of Sanctity
Fran Urban
Sažetak
Dobrisa Cesaric is probably the most widely read, quoted and recited Croatian and Yugoslav poet of the twentieth century. His poetry has not only captured the attention of readers of all ages and backgrounds, but has also permeated deeply into the life and soul of millions of men.
Strangely, but not unexpectedly in the present social and cultural climate, Cesaric's poetry has not been completely understood and adequately evaluated by either the public or by literary critics. Evaluation of Cesaric's poetry has not dared to go beyond its two surface, but widely acknowledged features: the interchange of suffering and light in human life and the harmony of content and form in Cesaric's poems.
Contrary to this superficial assessment, Cesaric's poetry includes a striking, deep, consistent and complete life doctrine which is in its entirety the reflection of the genuine Christian attitude to life. Without being aware of it, Cesaric lived an inner life, human and mystical at the same time, which was an emulation of the life of Jesus.
Cesaric's poems disclose that he successively tried to find accommodation with the four 'natural' ideological options into which rapid social change has divided people. Unable and unwilling to make permanent compromises with the four ideologies offered (a local Christian tradition, nationalism, socialism, social escapism), Cesaric retreated to a position based in his own rich deposit of love. Deprived of the total and universal exchange of life, usually called love, he forced himself to become satisfied only with bringing life, love and light into the hearts of unknown but numerous readers and admirers.
Cesaric's failure to recognize in Jesus the model for his own use of his life ought to be of great concern to the officials and chartered guardians of Jesus' heritage, a heritage which has not been expressed in terms understandable to contemporary men.
The acceptance and real appreciation of Cesaric's poetry by masses of readers bring the hope that a global society, for which the economic and technological foundations have already been laid, is ready and willing to receive and accept Jesus' message when it is properly worded.
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54908
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Datum izdavanja:
20.8.1981.
Posjeta: 4.694 *