STAND-UP TRAGEDY: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PANDEMIC FROM ISOLATION IN SARAJEVO
STAND-UP TRAGEDY: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PANDEMIC FROM ISOLATION IN SARAJEVO
Author(s): Almir BašovićContributor(s): Desmond Maurer (Translator)
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Greek Literature, Health and medicine and law, British Literature
Published by: Međunarodni forum Bosna
Keywords: Pandemic; Sarajevo; Isolation; utopia;
Summary/Abstract: Over the past few months, we have seen and heard our fill in the media of various “tragedies” associated with the coronavirus pandemic that has beset us. Given its propensity for doling out tragedy by the spadeful, there is a bitter irony in the corona or crown pandemic having received that name for the viral particles whose spikes suggest a crown. The very word pandemic suggests, etymologically, that this is an event of relevance to all the peoples of the planet, just as the events in tragedy take place in royal families but always have a relevance to the broadest social communities and are connected with cosmic principles.
Journal: Forum Bosnae
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 91-92
- Page Range: 97-105
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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