PUTOVANJE, PRIPOVIJEDANJE, KULTURNI SINKRETIZAM: SEDAM DANA PO BOSNI IVANA LOVRENOVIĆA
TRAVEL, NARRATION AND CULTURAL SYNCRETISM: SEDAM DANA PO BOSNI BY IVAN LOVRENOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the travelogue Seven Days across Bosnia by Ivan Lovrenovic, which raises one of the key questions: what is it that our culture or cultures remember, and what is it that they forget? The travel writer sets of from the initial intention, and that is to reanimate the neglected cultural heritage – old Bosnian Christian tombstones and Ottoman period tombstones, which no one cares about, nor fights about, as Lovrenović says, in order to establish a fundamental connection with the lost past. Old Bosnian Christian tombstones, as well as Muslim tombstones are connected to the tradition of medieval tombstones through its tradition and art of stone-masonry. Art motifs like the archaic cross and the crescent prove this as well as the fact that these tombstones can be found one next to another in a lot of places. The model of Bosnian tradition that is thus established in Lovrenović’s book Seven Days across Bosnia points at the syncretic connection with the pre-Christian, Bosnian and Balkan traditions.

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