The first series of lectures on Njegoš at the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (CANU) will be concluded by the writer Balša Brković, who will speak today at 12 noon about how to read the poet "Gorski vijenc" today.
Balša Brković (1966), is the author of six books of poetry, three novels and one book of stories, and is the editor of the Saturday supplement for the culture of Podgorica "Vijesti" Art.
"The misunderstanding that stems from inadequate interpretive models is actually the deepest misunderstanding. Montenegro is significantly different compared to fifty, let alone a hundred and fifty or two hundred years ago. The world is also significantly different. And we talk about Njegoš in many ways as what our ancestors said a century ago. Not only do we speak like them, but we also interpret Njegos like them. This is, in short, unforgivable. To exclude the great writer from the changes that the world is going through, that we ourselves are going through, is the same and give it up. Shakespeare and Cervantes grow with Europe, they are living writers who "decide" on the key issues of modernity, because they have valid readers. We condemned our greatest writer to sclerosis, denied him the right to be with us. No, yes is present with slogans and shameless political usage, but with that important information, which often combines the rational and the emotional, or makes the unspeakable shine clearly, and which can only be given to us by the true, only the greatest artists," emphasizes Balša Brković.
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