ESEJI JELE SPIRIDONOVIĆ SAVIĆ U SVETLU RELIGIOZNOG MISTICIZMA
THE ESSAYS OF JELA SPIRIDONOVIĆ SAVIĆ FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the essays of Jela Spiridonović Savić (1890-1974): texts which she assembled into a collection of Meetings (1944), as well as those regularly published in literary magazines in the 30’s of the last century. Once a celebrated and then forgotten Serbian writer, she wrote poetry (collections With narrow paths (1919), Eternal longing (1926) and Autumn tones (1939) and the religious epic Parchment (1923)), fiction (Stories (1939)) and essays (Meetings (1944)). Educated in the world’s centers of culture (New York, Munich, Trieste and Monaco) she had the opportunity to intersect the Orthodox theology (as part of her traditional heritage) with ideas of Western Christianity, especially in the specific area of mystical spirituality. Having researched the mosaic of Christian spirituality, Spiridonović opened the questions about the metaphysical aspects of the world, as well as practical activities of the woman according to religious principles. Religious mysticism is deeply incorporated into the spiritual essence of her poetry, prose and essays. Our study of her essays is based on the postulates of the scientific literature on feminist theory, which raises questions, rediscovering marginalized writers and offering new interpretations of their works. The aim of the paper is an attempt to revaluate her artistic and literary texts, pointing at the need of determining the poetess’s place in the canon of Serbian literature.

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