Tragovima Isidore Sekulić / Traces of Isidora Sekulić
pravlja i upravlja, jedan zalaže, jedan počinje zidati Ska- dar i zida sebe u Skadar… U svakom početku nije samo građenje već i žrtvovanje.(…) A naš narod? Divne, sjajne, jedinstvene pobede, a narod mali, pa mali. Veliki naro- di, kad sude male narode bilo u politici bilo u umetno- sti, znaju za agresivnost i za uteklu princezu, a ne znaju za tešku melanholiju zbog oboje. I ne znaju, ne vide, da je ta melanholija plemenita i tvoračka na svoj način…“ Isidora naglašava da je mali narod čudan pojam jer, kako kaže, ponekad on stvarno i nije mali… „U stvari je vrlo strpljiv i konzervativan fragment nekog velikog naroda. Drugi put opet on nije ni mali ni veliki, nego je zapravo samo kvasac naroda, večito renesansni elemenat, narod koji tvori narod. Živi takav narod ponekad toliko otkinut, toliko na okraju svake ci- vilizacije, da živi pod sasvim naročitim biološkim uslovi- ma. Dugotrajna kržljavost, dugotrajno samovanje, može, međutim, tu da bude normalan uslov za ojačanje i me- tamorfozu. Sumoran i beskrajno dug, kao šumska stazi- ca, jeste ponekad put malog naroda u bolji i viši život.“ U eseju Usredsređenost pisala je, između ostalog, o potrebi malog naroda da radi na svom duhu i znanju. Sjajno je u svom delu analizirala pitanje i politike pri- jateljstva, a u eseju Balkan istakla: „Hoće li Balkan je- dared otvoriti svoje oči uspavane i videti svoj ogromni ekonomski, politički i kulturni kapacitet, ako zamahne kao celina?“ APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE Isidora Sekulić, later known as the Apostle of Solitude, was born on 17th February 1877 in Mošorin, Bačka, while she lived in Belgrade for more than 50 years. She graduated from the Te- acher Training School in Sombor, completed pedagogy studies in Budapest, spoke seven languages, was a great connoisseur of French, German and Scandinavian literature, and a great tra- veller. Like many educated women of the time, she has worked as a teacher; first in Pančevo, then in Šabac and, from 1919, in Belgrade. She practised both occupations in Serbia. It will al- so remain recorded that Isidora Sekulić was the first Serbian woman to become an academic, accepted as a corresponding member of the Academy in 1939, becoming a full member in 1950. In one interview she gave in 1957 she said: “I love silen- ce (...). If I am worthy of something, let them say so after my de- ath, and not two days before my death do I want them to prai- se me”. She died a year later (5th April 1958) at the age of 81. APOSTOL SAMOĆE Isidora Sekulić, kasnije nazvana apostol samoće, rođena je 17. februara 1877. u Mošorinu, u Bačkoj, a u Beogradu je živela više od 50 godina. Završila je učiteljsku školu u Somboru, pe- dagogiju u Pešti, govorila je sedam jezika, bila veliki pozna- valac francuske, nemačke i skandinavske književnosti, veliki putnik. Poput mnogih školovanih žena tada, radila je kao na- stavnica; prvo u Pančevu, zatim u Šapcu i, od 1919, u Beogra- du. Obe okupacije je provela u Srbiji. Ostaće zapisano i to da je Isidora Sekulić prva žena koja je postala akademik, dopisni član Akademije postala je 1939. a redovni 1950. godine. U jednom intervjuu iz 1957. godine rekla je: „Volim tišinu (...). Ako nešto vredim, neka kažu posle moje smrti, a ni dva dana pred smrt ne želim da me hvale.“ Umrla je godinu dana ka- snije (5. aprila 1958. godine), u 81. godini.
In every beginning there is not only construction, but also sac- rifice. (...) And our people? A wonderful, great, unique victory, and a nation that’s small, well small. Great nations, when small nations clash, whether in politics or in art, know aggressiveness and fleeing princesses, but they do not know about heavy mel- ancholy caused by both. And they do not know, do not see, that this melancholy is noble and creative in its own way...” Isidora emphasises that small nations are a strange concept because, she says, sometimes they are not really small at all... “It’s actually a very patient and conservative fragment of a great nation. Another time it is again neither small nor large, rath- er it is actually just the yeast of a nation, an eternal renaissance element, a nation that forms a nation. The life of such a nation is sometimes so ripped, so much on the periphery of every civilisa- tion, that it lives under very special biological conditions. Long- term stunting and prolonged solitude may, however, be a nor- mal condition for strengthening and metamorphosis. Gloomy and infinitely long, like forest paths, is sometimes the path of a small nation towards a better and higher life.” In her essay“Usredsređenost”(Focus) she wrote, among oth- er things, about the need for a small nation to work on its spir- it and knowledge. In her work she gave an excellent analysis of the question and politics of friendship, while in the essay “Bal- kan”she noted:“Will the Balkans, once and for all, open its sleepy eyes, and see its enormous economic, political and cultural ca- pacities, if it sweeps as a unit”.
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