METHODICAL APPROACH TO COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STORIES "NI OKO ŠTA" BY MILOVAN GLIŠIĆ AND "ŠKOLSKA IKONA" BY LAZA LAZAREVIĆ

Abstract

Rural topics are dominant in the Serbian literature of realism. The tragic position of a rural individual in contact with combined forces of destruction has become a great literary theme. The teacher’s life in the countryside became prominent as a unique challenge of the new epoch  in short stories of Milovan Glišić and Laza Lazarević.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the teacher’s life in the country in short stories Ni oko šta by Milovan Glišić and Školska ikona by Laza Lazarević. While Glišić writes about the real state of Serbian countryside, Lazarević opposes patriarchal views with progressive views of his time. Since both authors write about the life of teachers in Serbia at the end of the 19^th century and spiritual backwardness of the Serbian people, their stories are a good starting point for a methodical processing which is based on the procedures of analysis and synthesis, but also of observation, comparison and evaluation.