Summary
Isidora Sekulić: Letters from Norway
Indeed, no history is as little complicated as Norwegian history, both in the hours of progress and in the hours of decline; and no fate is so little instructive as that of the Norwegian people both in the hours of fortune and in the hours of misfortune. In this country, nature is so superior to people in terms of beauty, horror and strength that all the importance and interestingness of Norway's past is more the will of geology and geography than the fate of the people.
Bewitched by Norway, Isidora Sekulić wrote Letters from Norway a hundred and ten years ago, a unique classic work, the first modern travelogue in Serbian literature of the 20th century. Continuing on the eve of the First World War, Letters from Norway did not receive a positive reception from the most respected critic, Jovan Skerlić, whose negative assessment was motivated by the cosmopolitan spirit of the author in the Serbian wars during the Balkan wars.
Isidora Sekulić was attracted to the harsh climate, the desolate Nordic landscape, the fjords, the Norwegian and his way of life. In Norway, the harsh and cold country of the north, she found a long-sought peace and a place of spiritual longing that is in harmony with her artistic nature and philosophical attitude towards life.
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