Open AccessMRGUDA BY PETAR KOČIĆ – A VICTIM OR A REAL HERO
Author(s) -
Sunčica Denić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
facta universitatis. series, teaching, learning and teacher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-4619
pISSN - 2560-4600
DOI - 10.22190/futlte2002179d
Subject(s) - soul , eternity , hero , theme (computing) , character (mathematics) , philosophy , literature , motif (music) , psychoanalysis , art , theology , aesthetics , psychology , geometry , mathematics , computer science , operating system
A strong love and suffering because of it, almost an archetypal motif and a common mythopoetic theme, is the basis of the story Mrguda by Petar Kočić. Mrguda represents poeticized death with the power of great ancient heroes of post-Homeric age. It seems that only by death is Mrguda able to restrain body strength and desire, the fire that cannot be quenched; to overpower physical by spiritual. The character of Mrguda can be seen not in the fight, as Vitomir Vuletić wrote, but in yearning for death – or phraseologically – in heroic death. Does a suicide possess heroic or brave qualities, that is an eternal question. Mrguda’s taking is, in one hand, taking of the body, while the soul remains to live; taking the soul would go into another direction – the body does not belong to the universe, memory and eternity anyway.