Jela Spiridonović-Savić (11 January 1890 - September 1974) was a Serbian poet.
Biography
Jelena "Jela" Spiridonović-Savić was born in
Šabac,
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Princi ...
, 11 January 1890.
She was the wife of a prominent Consul general of
Yugoslavia in
New York City, Vladislav Savić. She spent three years in
Trieste before
World War I studying at the parochial school of ''Nostra Signora della Provvidenza e di Sion'' (Notre Dame de Sion Parish School). Educated in the world's centers of culture, New York,
Munich,
Trieste, and
Monaco, she had the opportunity to intersect the Orthodox theology as part of her traditional heritage with ideas of Western Christianity, especially in the area of
mystical spirituality. Having researched the mosaic of Christian
spirituality
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, Spiridonović opened the questions about the
metaphysical aspects of the world, as well as practical activities of the woman according to religious principles. Religious mysticism is deeply incorporated into the spiritual essence of her poetry, prose and essays. Her essays are based on the postulates of the scientific literature on
feminist theory, which raises questions, rediscovering marginalized writers and offering new interpretations of their works. She died in
Belgrade
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, Yugoslavia, September 1974.
Published works
* ''Čežnje: izabrana dela'' (Čežnje: Collected works; 2012)
* ''Susreti'' (1944)
* ''Pripovetke'' (1939)
References
Sources
* Jela Spiridonović-Savić, ''Večite čežnje'', 1926
*Jela Spiridonović-Savić, ''Pergamene rinvenute e trascritte dal fratello in cristo Stratonico'', 1927
*Francesco Babudri ''Intimi conflitti dello spirito umano nel poemetto di Jela Spiridonović-Savić''
*Umberto Urbanaz-Urbani ''Jela Spiridonović-Savić e le sue liriche''
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1891 births
1974 deaths
Serbian women poets
Yugoslav poets
Yugoslav women poets
Yugoslav women writers
20th-century women writers