The power and citizenship in the roman The Master Is Coming Tomorrow of Petar Sarić

• Main Author: Jeftimijević-Mihajlović Marija
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić 2010-01-01
• Series: Baština
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2010/0353-90081028039J.pdf

The problem of human freedom, as the author says, has always been a challenging theme for literary creators. In 'The Legend of the Great Inquisitor' in The Brothers Karamazovi, Dostoyevsky problematized the phenomenon of freedom and citizenship. The essence of his considerations consists of the following: man is much too weak in order to endure' ponderous burden of freedom'; he would rather join a citizenship mass than become on his own and free. Furthermore, the author introduce the roman of Petar Sarić The Master Is Coming Tomorrow, and states that it largely relies on these attitudes of Dostoyevsky. This is not only his image of power and reign, but the one of citizenship and citizen as well. In fact, it is not only the Master who makes the mechanism of the absolute power as the holder of power but the people of subject to whom almighty Master is in dispensable as well. By taking pictures of the citizens, Sarić managed to show the mechanism of mastery it self bearing in mind the fact despotism and being of a subject are to be connected in a cause-effect manner. By this roman, Sarić is classifying him self in the rank of gifted creators who had courage to confront not only with the inside of human nature but with the one of the history as well.