Papović: Two opinions about Njegoš

The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) submitted the author's text of its member historian Dragutin Papović "Two opinions about Njegoš".

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Oskar Davičo, one of the most important Serbian writers of the 1978th century and the only three-time winner of the NIN Award, received the Njegoš Award in XNUMX for the poetry book "Words in Action". At the award ceremony in the Government House in Cetinje, Davičo said, among other things: "Obviously the "Mountain Wreath" is not a work of intolerance... and we witnessed here when the people of the Patriarchate, in civilian clothes or in robes, made such a noise against construction of the mausoleum on Lovcen. The prisoners of the past and its castles, morally ruined and mentally destroyed, shamelessly took out from the refrigerator of historical oblivion unimportant facts such as the fact that an Orthodox ruler of Montenegro, a Catholic and a Croat, Ivan Meštrović, has no right to erect a monument... He never did. was a teacher of genocidal hatreds, neither as a man nor as a poet, nor as a bishop, nor as a statesman. He was not a prophet of bigotry or a propagandist of the investigation, as, for example, supporters of the abolition of national differences with a knife and investigations want him to be respected.

Slavko Vukomanović, professor of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, published the essay "Theft of Writers" in 1984, in which he wrote that Njegoš belongs to the cultural heritage of the Montenegrin nation. Vukomanović stated: "The Montenegrin people, their national consciousness, is deeply rooted in their cultural and political history. Then why do we so easily "steal" writers from his cultural tradition?... The Serbian nation, which has many great poets in its cultural history, has no need to fuss over the only great Montenegrin poet from the last century. This becomes particularly meaningless if we bear in mind that Njegoš, the "Mountain Wreath", arose from the being of the Montenegrin people, their understanding of life, morals, heroes. "Mountain Wreath" is an inseparable part of the Montenegrin ethnic consciousness, the common good of all Montenegrins, a national shrine whose verses are equally known to children and the elderly, whole generations."