Bijedna Mara

Luka Botić

• Poetry
• Book language: Croatian
• 224 pages

"Bijedna Mara" by Luka Botić is a narrative poem in folk decasyllable, shaped by oral epic tradition. It opens in the village of Konjsko, where a blind man and his guide ask why the people have fallen silent; the poem follows the sorrowful fate of Mara. It is worth listening for its resounding verse and moving story.

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Text source: hr.wikisource.org · The work is in the public domain.