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Jovan Skerlić (, ) (20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and critic.〔''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877-1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade.〕 He is regarded as one of the most influential Serbian literary critics of the early 20th century, after Bogdan Popović, his professor and early mentor. == Biography == It is said that Skerlić revolutionized the Serbian literary scene around the turn of the nineteenth century as a young dashing critic, historian of literature, politician and polemicist. Although he died relatively young (he was 37), Skerlić still managed to complete an impressive body of work that linked criticism and literary history. According to his biographer, he became interested in the socialism advocated by Vaso Pelagić and Svetozar Marković as a very young man. At sixteen Skerlić began writing for the ''Zanatlijiski savez'' ("The Craftmen Union", 1893). In 1895, he began to contribute his writings to various newspapers, such as ''Socialdemokrat'', ''Radničke novine'', and ''Delo.'' At the university in Belgrade, he studied history and French philology. He received an excellent post-graduate education at Belgrade's Grande École (his professor and mentor was Bogdan Popović) before embarking on a graduate program abroad at the universities of Lausanne, Paris and Munich. He completed his doctorate in French Literature in Lausanne in 1901. After three years of post-graduate research in Paris and Munich, he returned in 1904 to Serbia, where he taught French and French Literature at the Grande École where he had been educated before becoming professor of Serbian Literature at the same institution (when the University of Belgrade was established) the following year. Skerlić was a member of the Skupština (Serbian Parliament), and founder and editor of several literary periodicals. His political sympathies made him an ally of the Serbian socialist Svetozar Marković, whose posthumous biography Skerlić came to write.〔 Skerlić always insisted on the parallel between Svetozar Marković and Dositej Obradović, seeing in the former a reincarnation of the latter: ''"This young man's role in our public life in the nineteenth century was the same as that of the ex-monk Dositej Obradović at the end of the eighteenth century...."'' At the beginning of the 20th century, Skerlić became a member of the Independent Radical Party. As such, he was one of the ideologists of Yugoslav national youth, and advocated a common Serbo-Croatian language and national unity. Skerlić viewed literature in terms of his political beliefs, and he adopted some aesthetic ideas from Bogdan Popović. His main intellectual sympathies in literary criticism lay, however, with the French: his Lausanne professors, Georges Renard and Hippolyte Taine. Though he did not follow Svetozar Marković's utilitarian ideas on literature, he believed, like Ljubomir Nedić, that literature was linked to progress.〔 He was familiar with Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, the founder of the subjective method of textual criticism, which consisted in rejecting in a classical author whatever failed to come up to the standard of what that author, in the critic's opinion, ought to have written.〔(Jovan Skerlić is born on this day ) RTS, Serbia 〕 Writes Jovan Skerlić in ''Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti'' (Second Edition, Belgrade, 1921, page 43): ''The authors of the 19th century, with all their differences nevertheless share a unity of literary ideas and theories. Each of the young poets of the 20th century had his own concepts and well-defined ideas. This phenomenon made it extremely difficult for the literary critic to label new poetic achievements as specific schools, and place them in a continuation of the organized pattern that evolved from Romanticism of the 1860-1870 decade, to Realism after 1870.'' He published a seminal literary history of 18th century Serbian Literature (1909). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jovan Skerlić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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