ЈЕДНА ПЕСНИЧКА СВАДБА ДЕВЕТНАЕСТОГ ВЕКА У СВЕТЛУ ДРУШТВЕНИХ И КЊИЖЕВНИХ КРЕТАЊА СРБА У ДИЈАСПОРИ
A POETIC WEDDING OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE LIGHT OF THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY MOVEMENTS OF THE SERBS IN THE DIASPORA

Summary/Abstract: In Buda, in 1838, in a vast Serbian intellectual colony, where the Serbs lived in the diaspora, a Serbian poet of the romantic era Sima Milutinović Sarajlija married Marija Popović, a teacher, a first female lawyer, Luka Milovanov’s student, and Vuk Karadžić’s collaborator. The encounter of the unusual poet Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and “pretty Maca from Buda” (as Vuk Karadžić called Marija Popović) happened when Marija Popović manifested a good interpretation of some hardly understandable viewpoints of Sima Milutinović Sarajlija in an epic Srbijanka. On that occasion she “used points” (fullstops) on hardly understandable parts. That was how they named this cunning girl “The Pointeress”, who later also demonstrated a poetic gift and wrote lyric poetry and artistic riddles beautifully. Approval or disapproval of the marriage played out by means of correspondences between the cultural workers of that time and by means of lyric poetry of the famous poets in papers and magazines. Their life in Buda, later in Novi Sad and Belgrade, came under scrutiny by the social and literary life of the Serbs in the homeland and the diaspora. Understanding the life and work of Sima Milutinović Sarajlija is of great importance for the history of Serbian Romanticism and culture of the 19th century, as well as for the research of the relation between the Serbs in Serbia and the Serbs in the diaspora.

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