Hidden motives in the story 'Kosta Grmov' of Petar Panić

Abstract

The story 'Kosta Grmov' of Petar Panić, to which literary critics paid little attention until now, differs from other stories in the Anthology of Old Serbian story - tellers 1871­1941, either by procedure modernization or by shifting of theme centre from local social problems to 'eternal themes' of literature, from realism to mythology. The familiarity with orphic myth is especially evident in topic and symbolic, while some hidden motives, which are familiar to our popular literature, were taken over indirectly from Christian theology such as: supernatural origin of artistic gift, pride as the largest deadly sin, and punishment which can bring redemption. The classic realistic story-telling course is giving up its place to factographic procedure - reduction of the type and character, absence of pshychologization of personality, contraction of plot to cold and poor recording, by which the importance of non-said from one part, and some more detailed shown scenes, from another part.

Keywords

• kosta grmov
• orphic myth
• nightingale
• pride
• sin
• punishment
• factographic procedure