Mistika života i dela Jele Spiridonović-Savić
Jela Spiridonovic-Savic: The Misticism of Life and Art

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an analysis of life and literal work of the Serbian writer Jela Spiridonovic Savic and her reception in period after World War I until today. Jela Spiridonovic Savic (1890-1974) wrote poetry (collections On the narrow paths (1919), Eternal longing (1926) and Autumn melodies (1939) and religious epic Parchments (1923)), fiction (Tales (1939)) and essays (Meetings in 1944)). While studyng in the European centers of culture, she had a chance to intersect her ideas of Orthodoxy (as part of her traditional heritage) with the ideas of Western Christianity, especially in the specific field of mystical spirituality. The study of Christian spirituality for Jela Savic was introduction to a new way of thinking about the metaphysical aspects of the world, but also the practical effect of the individual, according to religious principles. Religious mysticism was deeply incorporated into the spiritual core of her literary arts. Our study of these works is based on the feminist theories which analyze the phenomenon of women's presence in the literature of the 20th century as a phenomenon in the presence of native culture, leading to the rediscovery of the opening questions of marginalized writers and new interpretations of their work. The aim of the paper is an attempt to revaluation for impairment of artistic and literary texts pointing to the need to determine the poetess's place in the canon of the Serbian literature.

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