The theme of the forum "Agora", organized by the "Zahumlje" JU from Nikšić, will be the vision of man as given by one of the most important writers in history. Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, writing novels such as "Notes from the Underground", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment"... The panel entitled "One view of a man: the case of 'Dostoevsky'", will be held on Thursday, December 5, in the hall "Zahumlja", starting at 19 p.m.
"This Russian metaphysician, who directed his creative potential towards man and his idea of the world, God and other man, is still relevant today, his works are being re-read, and the opinion that he was an undisputed connoisseur of the human soul is valid for him," reads the announcement. stands.
About what makes his thought about man current, what questions we still ask today, whether we have answers to them and what we can learn about man by reading Dostoevsky's works, the editor of the forum, Andjela Pekovic, will talk with prof. Ph.D Jovan Popov and others Jasmina Ahmetagić. As stated in the announcement, the books "Proud and Humble" by Popov and "The Book of Dostoevsky" by Ahmetagić are all the more reason for the topic of the panel to be Dostoevsky and Man.
Popov is a historian and theoretician of literature, comparatist and translator. He graduated, master's and doctorate at the Department of General Literature and Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He is the winner of the "Nikolaj Timchenko" award for 2020, as well as the award of the Society of Writers of Vojvodina for the best book in 2006, i.e. for the best translation in 2003. He is the author of several books.
"The Proud and the Humble: The Paradoxicalists of Fyodor Dostoyevsky is an intellectually challenging study that considers the deep psychological drama of the literary heroes of the Russian classic. This book reveals the complex dynamics of dominance and submission in love and power, thus contributing to an overall understanding of the complex and tragic nature of man - as in Dostoyevsky's time , as well as today. As the author himself points out: The humble, therefore, do not have to be humbled, just as the humbled do not have to be humble but, on the contrary, I can preserve a certain measure of pride, sometimes very high," says the description of Pop's book.
Jasmina Ahmetagić is a theoretician and critic of literature, who graduated and received her doctorate from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She is the winner of the "Nikola Milošević" award in 2014 for the book "The Storyteller and the Story" and the "Isidorijana" award for the best books in Serbian literature in 2007 ("Anthropopeia: the biblical subtext of Pekić's prose" and "The inner side of postmodernism: a view of theory/ about Pavić"). She is the author of several books. He works at the Institute for Serbian Culture in Pristina - Leposavić.
"In Jasmine Ahmetagić's book 'The Book of Dostoevsky,' the works that do not form the central current of Dostoevsky's oeuvre are analyzed, some of which, for example, have not been studied at all in our area (e.g. 'The Landlady'), but there is an extensive bibliography about them outside of our speaking area But even when it comes to works about which a lot has been written in our country and in the world, the author manages to provide completely new and different insights, thanks to an interdisciplinary approach (a combination of psychology, psychiatry, narratology and literary theory.) The special value of this book is the dialogue that takes place on its pages with scholars of Dostoevsky's works. Bakhtin), but this polemic is discrete and implies that the authorities are placed in a dialogic position. What should be emphasized is the simplicity with which this otherwise complex book was written, which, focusing on the works of Dostoyevsky, deals with central human experiences, of which love and the loss of capacity for closeness are perhaps one of the most important," the description states. "Books about Dostoevsky".
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