Chapter 5. How to Use a Classic: Petar Petrović Njegoš in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

“[Njegoš is] the immortal apostle and herald of the unity of our people.”King Aleksandar “Njegoš is Montenegro and Montenegro is Njegoš.”Josip Vidmar “Njegoš is a Serbian writer and this emerges logically from his work.”Zora Latinović It is a truth self-evident that an East European nation in search of its identity must have a national literature and a national poet. Following the model proposed originally by Herder in the early nineteenth century, East European nation-builders have generally..