Baština (Jan 2012)
Mythomahia of Miladin Ševarlić: Kosovo battle in the Serbian Trilogy
Abstract
The author states that the Serbian Trilogy of Miladin Ševarlić is made of the works The Ruin of Serbian Empire, and Kosovo and Dragon of Serbia, and each of these dramas is the variation of Kosovo theme, observed from the three periods - before-Kosovo, Kosovo, and after-Kosovo, as the cycles of popular epics are usually called, which had great impact on Ševarlić's trilogy. In the treatment of this author myth-making of historic events an archetypical dimension of the Serbian history is established: Ševarlić is revealing Kosovo, and other national myths showing the futility of historic addressing to legends and tradition. By dealing with internal reasons leading to the national catastrophe (and he problematizes the ruler, the prince Lazar, that is, the tsar Dušan, and their state politics), and Serbian responsibility for own history, the author destroys the compatibility of Kosovo myth and Gospel: the Christ-like hero in the history is not and cannot be the holder of terrestrial authority and power, but only sacrificed, which confirms in the drama Kosovo, and in the Dragon of Serbia. Furthermore, the author says that Kosovo represents the most important national chronotype, which has got apocalyptic direction. In Kosovo myth it is about translation of chronologic time into accomplished one, the time of decisive happening, that is, so-called kairos. In Ševarlić's dramas the opposite process is being developed: kairos turns into chronos, the epochal of happenings is being abolished, and translated at historic events to which catastrophic character was determined by bad and manipulative ruling.
