Człowiek, przestrzeń i natura. Boka Kotorska w prozie Nikoli Malovicia
Man, Space and Nature. The Bay of Kotor in the Prose of Nikola Malović

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the imaginary structure of The Bay of Kotor in selected works( the novels: Latajući Bokelj [Wandering Bokelj], Jedro nade [Sail of Hope] and thecollection of short stories Prugastoplave storije [Striped Blue Stories]) by NikolaMalović, as well as the issues of ideological consequences of this literary creation,in which the region becomes a metonymy for the problems of the modern world.The story of the Bokelian identityis a story about rooting, about space treated asoikos, and about a man as one of the elements of this system. In Malović’s reflection, the awareness of the writer’s place of origin is combined with the awarenessof responsibility for it. Looking for the disastrous consequences for humans inthe interdependence between power ( politics ) and knowledge ( civilization development ), in returning to the tradition and experiences of ancestors, he seesan antidote to the devastating activity of man, which links this concept with thecurrent of research referred to as traditional ecological knowledge.

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