Gürs Ilyas u lirskom pamćenju: Tro-varijantsko promicanje pjesme o bolovanju Đerzelez Alije
The Lyrical Legacy of Gürs Ilyas: The Tripartite Furtherance of The Poem on Đerzelez Alija’s Suffering

Author(s): Nihad Efendić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: BZK "Preporod" Brčko distrikt Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: oral form; epic character; variant; the furtherance of a variant;
Summary/Abstract: The epic character Alija Đerzelez has transcended onto other forms of oral literature, the most recent instance of which comes from fieldwork conducted in Srebrenica by the ethnologists of the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the beginning of 2009. Here Alija Đerzelez comes in the form of a 42-line long ballad, composed in the iambic pentameter. After an analysis of the existing variants, it has been confirmed that the poem was probably written in Herzegovina, and that the date of origin refers to a rather recent past (with the exception of Kurt’s variant published in his collection in 1902). The particularity of the last poem recorded lies in the fact that the massive and seemingly immortal myth about the invincible Đerzelez has come to an endpoint in this poem. The death of the hero of mythic proportions has been announced even in the only place where the belief in his immortality was alive – in a poem.

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