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description: Put Alije erzeleza (The Journey of Ali Djerzelezu)tampan je 1920. i 1922. godine u Beogradu ali delovi ove pripovetke su izlazili u zagrebakom Knjievnom jugu. Iako je osnova za sadrinu i znaenje Puta Alije erzeleza Mustafe Madara Mosta na epi i Trupa pronaena u istoriji legendi i sudbini pojedinca u njima Andri istoriju ne posmatra kao zbir poznatih i poverljivih dogaaja medju njenim uesnicima niti legendu doivljava kao gotovu i nepromenljivu siejnu injenicu prie nego kao adekvatnu poetnu osnovu za dublje i postojanije shvatanje smisla i znaenja istorije legende u ivotu pojedinca i trajanju sveta. Vidi ih kao simbolian doivljaj istorije kao pozornicu na kojoj se odvija ovekov susret sa neminovnostima svoje prolaznosti nesavrenstva straha i nemoi. Andris first short story published in 1920. Its protagonist is the hero of a large number of Moslem heroic ballads. Bearing in mind the special place accorded to legend and fairy-tale in Andris statements about art we should consider exactly what form the grain of truth contained in legend takes in this tale. The traditional ballads concerned with Alija deal exclusively with his prowess on the battlefield. Andri refers to his fame in just one sentence: He was renowed for many battles and his fearful strength...  and immediatelly takes him off his horse setting him down in a context where he appears awkward because he is not used to being on the ground or to normal social interaction. His stature is a t once diminished: In a few days the magic circle around erzelez had quite disappeared. There is no clear reason why the label hero should have attached itself to this particular person. He is small unprepossessing and ungainly as soon as he dismounts awkward and uninteresting in conversation. He is slow-witted and chronically lacking in imagination. But he is also obsessive. Once he sees a beautiful woman he can think of nothing else but possessing her. Or he abandons himself wholeheartedly to the singing of a particularly fine traditional singer: erzelez felt that the singer tugging at his soul and that any moment now he would expire from excessive strength or excessive weakness.  erzelez can flourish only in circumstances where his simple-minded strength energy can be expressed in the immediate violent ways he understands. He is quite baffled by more intricate social relationships and by the whole deeply disturbing question of women. Andri here exploits the comic possibilities exposing a renowned hero to the demands made on men by their ballads about Marko Kraljevi.
language: Serbian
title: Put Alije Đerzeleza
publisher: Srpska književna zadruga