{"id":47,"date":"2026-04-20T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avdomedjedovic.me\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:57:47","slug":"kako-nastaje-ep-bez-papira","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avdomedjedovic.me\/en\/kako-nastaje-ep-bez-papira\/","title":{"rendered":"How an epic is created without paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-default\">The essence of Avdo\u2019s genius<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Formulas and themes<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Fixed epic phrases (\u201csince the world came into being\u201d, \u201cnow behold heroic Meho\u201d) and typical scenes (assembly of heroes, battle, journey) that he used as building blocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Learning through listening<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Illiterate, he learned only through listening. Example: his friend Hivzo read him a poem of 2,160 verses\u2014Avdo transformed it into 12,311 verses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Improvisation and transformation<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Each performance was a new version. He added descriptions, dialogues, digressions\u2014the poem grew in the moment of singing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Illiteracy as an advantage<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">He was not bound to a fixed text. He remembered the essence and structure, not the words\u2014therefore he could create freely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow is-style-plain--1\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--2\"><em>\u201cAvdo considered nothing sacred in printed text\u2014he accepted everything as inspiration and freely reworked it.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2014 Albert B. Lord<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Conclusion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Avdo Me\u0111edovi\u0107 stood at the crossroads of tradition and personal creativity\u2014a \u201cpost-traditional\u201d poet who brought oral epic poetry to its peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Su\u0161tina Avdovog genija Formule i teme Gotove epske fraze (\u201eod kako je svijet postanuo\u201c, \u201eno da vidi\u0161 juna\u010dkoga Meha\u201c) i tipski prizori (sabor junaka, borba, putovanje) koje je koristio kao gradivne kockice. U\u010denje kroz slu\u0161anje Nepismen, u\u010dio je samo u\u0161ima. Primjer: prijatelj Hivzo mu je pro\u010ditao pjesmu od 2.160 stihova \u2013 Avdo ju je pretvorio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kako nastaje ep bez papira \u2013 genije Avda Me\u0111edovi\u0107a<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kako nastaje ep bez papira otkriva na\u010din na koji je Avdo Me\u0111edovi\u0107 stvarao epske pjesme bez pisanja i formalnog obrazovanja.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/avdomedjedovic.me\/en\/kako-nastaje-ep-bez-papira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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