Bajke

by Grozdana Olujić

U oblasti književnosti za decu bajka ima poseban značaj jer nas vodi neobičnim putevima u svet fantastike. To je slika doživljaja sveta. Ona je večna fantastika, u stvari, fantastika budućnosti. Ali, savremena bajka sve više sadrži aktuelne probleme i dileme savremenog čoveka. Ono što je Grozdana Olujić podarila svetu bajki jedinstven je primer u našoj književnosti.

Podsetimo se samo njenih knjiga bajki: Sedefna ruža, Nebeska reka, Dečak i princeza, Vilenjakova tajna, Mesečev cvet i dr. Ne može se osporiti da je u tim bajkama Grozdana Olujić izuzetnim stvaralačkim impulsom, koristeći strukturu narodne bajke implicirala neke aktuelne probleme savremenog života, i baš taj spoj elemenata tradicionalnog i savremenog izraza bajke otkriva posebnu izražajnost. Iako je sve rečeno na posve jednostavan način, rečeno je sublimiranom slikovitošću i efektnim aluzijama koje nam sugerišu trajne ljudske vrednosti i piščevo viđenje sveta. Grozdana Olujić je pre svega istraživač lepote, što je vrlo prepoznatljivo u njenim bajkama. U bajci Sedefna ruža školjka će iz dubine mora čeznuti za novim nepoznatim svetovima, koje može samo da naslućuje, ili kapljica (Kapljica i cvet) takođe će putovati svetovima u potrazi za lepim. Tako će čovek u bajci Čovek koji je tražio svoje lice, menjati lice jedno za drugim, misleći da je ono koje još nije isprobao bolje.

Još jedan važan momenat ne smemo zaboraviti: ono najlepše što ispisuje bajke Grozdane Olujić jeste ljubav prema čoveku. Čovek je u centru svega, snažan je, odoleva iskušenjima i pobeđuje čak i natprirodne sile. On poseduje iskonsku težnju za pobedom dobra nad zlom. I u njenim bajkama zauzimaju svoje mesto te distingvirane kategorije lepog i ružnog, dobra i zla, za lepo je čovek nagrađen, a za ružno uglavnom kažnjen.

Po bajkama Grozdane Olujić snimljene su ploča i kaseta Sedefna ruža u interpretaciji Mije Aleksića [6], uz muzičku pratnju Laze Ristovskog (PGP, Beograd) i televizijska serija (devet nastavaka od po trideset minuta). Svetsku premijeru na pozorišnim daskama bajke Grozdane Olujić imale su u pozorištu Eg, Albani, država Njujork.

127 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Serbian writer, essayist, translator, and anthologist.

Grozdana Olujić received a master's degree in English and English literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. Her first novel, An Excursion to Heaven (Izlet u nebo) was released in 1958, when the writer was 24 years old.
The book became a bestseller, received an award of Narodna prosvjeta publishing house for the best novel of Yugoslavia and was instantly translated into several European languages. The novel was first adapted for the stage, and in 1962, based on the book, the film director Jovan Živanović shot the melodrama Strange Girl (Čudna devojka).

The novels Vote for love (Glasam za ljubav), Do not wake a sleeping dog (Ne budi zaspale pse) and Wild seed (Divlje seme) published in the 60s confirmed Grozdana Olujić as one of the leading authors of Serbian literature.

Short story The Game (Igra) from the collection African Violet (Afrička ljubičica), published in 1985, received the main prize of an international short story competition in Arnsberg (Deutscher und internationale Kurzgeschichtenpreis).
Almost all of the stories from that collection were translated into foreign languages and were included in various anthologies of short prose around the world: in Germany, USA, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, India, Great Britain, France, etc.
In 2009, the writer's novel Voices in the Wind (Glasovi u vetru) became the winner of NIN Award, the main literary award of Serbia.

Olujić also translated a number of works into Serbian: Saul Bellow, Amrita Pritam, William Kennedy, Arnold Wesker, Yukio Mishima and others. She is also highly praised for her essays on Kafka, Thomas Wolfe, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and most notably for the essay The Poetics of fairy tale (1981).