Čitalac Odisej ili odiseja čitanja: "O nama i našim ishodištima"
The Odyssean Reader or the Odyssey of Reading: "Of Ourselves and Our Origins"

Summary/Abstract: The author is striving to find deep, internal reasons behind the act of reading, and thus the teaching of literature. He offers the method of “historicizing” to the reader (as well as to his reading “mentor” – the teacher of literature), with an aim to immerse him in the literary text, along with the “advising” model that describes what exactly happens during the act of reading. These exercises of reading include several confirmed classics, but also works of recent world literature such as James Joyce’s „Dubliners“, „Heart of Darkness“ and „The Secret Agent“ by Joseph Conrad, „The Great Gatsby“ by Scott Fitzgerald, „Reading Lolita“ in Tehran by Azar Nafisi and the poetry of TS Eliot. Although Schwartz’s target audience is the academic community, his knowledge of an experienced university professor and a writer can also be useful to teachers in primary and secondary levels of education. Schwartz takes us back to the ultimate question: why do we read? To answer this question, he holds, means to solve the dilemma of the function and purpose of teaching literature – i.e., the skill of reading.

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