About The Nazirite by Ana Bujić
A Biblical story – so well-known and heard so many times. Then why read it yet again?
The story is built on a tangle of conflicts: antagonism between siblings, discord between parents and children, strife between nations, and, finally, rivalry between a woman and God. The author sheds special light on family drama, using father/daughter, father/son and mother/son conflicts to portray strong and dominant characters. These family conflicts are well-knitted into the unobtrusive but omnipresent background story of a clash between the oppressor and the oppressed chosen people, of their plight and revenge. Yet another conflict arises from a love triangle formed by the nazirite and the two physically, emotionally and morally opposed sisters. This conflict oscillates between love and hate, highlighting the story of attraction and loathing between different ethnic and social groups. Among all these conflicts, there is one that is strikingly missing – a power struggle between male and female characters.
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Author Bio:
Ana Bujić was born on 30 July 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She completed her graduate and postgraduate studies in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Her first novel A Story of Passion, Love and Other Things won the award of the Union of Jewish Municipalities of Yugoslavia and was published in 2004 as The Nazirite by the renowned publisher Narodna knjiga. Her second novel, also inspired by Judaism, was published by Evro Giunti in 2011 under the title Pulsa diNura (a Kabbalistic curse in Ancient Aramaic). The latter was nominated for two reputable literary awards.
In addition to her novels, she wrote two plays inspired by Greek tragedy, which were included in the Contemporary Serbian Drama, a magazine that has been published for 25 years. She is an author of several literary reviews and her stories were published in literary magazines.
She took part in a project run by the non-governmental organization Šta hoćeš? – What Do You Want? Non-governmental Organization (NGO), a TV show called Na veslu priča (Story on a Paddle) which was an interesting combination of ecology and literature. The author’s approach took the form of a Wildesque fairytale.