World Peace And Legacy Of B. Wongar

This paper examines the work of a Serbian-australian writer B. Wongar
and explores traditional Serbian and australian aboriginal cultures
that were both impacted by similar political structures. Wongar’s work
is compared to the opus of yukio Mishima, who in post-nuclear Japan
pledged to respect the ethical values despite the enforced moderniza-
tion. Wongar’s renounced novel raki received particular recognition
for accomplishing something that had never been attempted in litera-
ture before: creation of a symbolic bridge between Serbian and aus-
tralian aboriginal cultures.
Is it acceptable to consider someone who writes in English lan-
guage under aboriginal name B. Wongar a Serbian writer? Sreten
Božić alias B. Wongar, who was born in 1923 in the Serbian mountain-
ous village gornja Tresnjevica and nowadays is probably one of the
most important Serbian writers in the beginning of third millennium,
writes in English. This might appear confusing at first; however it does
showcase that particular trace in history where freedom of Serbian
literature had a chance to thrive due to ideologies promoted by both
conquerors and liberators. Truth be told, Sreten Božić was very de-
termined to make himself a literate person, to adopt all the cultural
significance embedded in written heritage and then to start to write
in Serbian. However the Second World War broke out and the soldiers
during his very first day at classroom took away his teachers and their
three children who never ever returned into his village again. a re-
placement teacher was found but even though the soldiers didn’t drive
off with her this time, they killed her in the classroom in front of the
pupils. after that experience Božić developed a strong distatsted to-
wards cultures built on literacy alone. In the next four years, there was
not a single teacher who would enter that school. Consequently Božić
was left alone with no other source of inspiration but his genuinely
bright mind and spoken legacy which was undoubtedly good enough
to bring forth a future writer.
Milutin Milanković, a world famous author of Canon of Insolation
dedicated to solving the secret of Ice ages, had a similar experience.
living in different circumstances at the end of the XIX century in
Slavonia, he did not attend elementary school due to his illness so he
had a chance to observe and explore the world around him in his own
way. When he started attending secondary school, réălka in Osijek,
he was surprised how effortless it was for him to learn new material
while all of his classmates seemed to struggled with it. He also grew
up on Serbian spoken legacy, especially touched by heroic character
Marko Kraljević, legendary knight who fought against Turkish imper-
ial oppression. The story of Marko left such a strong emotional imprint
on the young Milutin’s soul that the last paper he wrote before his death
was dedicated to this particular hero. Having no burden of scholastic
or of erudite illiteracy he developed a mathematical mind that created
heliocentric theory of the climate change that is confirmed more and
more as time goes by.
It is impossible to compare Milanković and Wongar simply be-
cause Milanković has university degree from Polytechnics, Vienna,
while Wongar was self-thought. Even though they are different when
it comes to their formal education and social status, they are still simi-
lar when it comes to their knowledge of Serbian legacy and the energy
they acquired through Serbian upbringing, epic poetry, traditional
wisdom and metaphors. Touched utterly by epic narrating of his father,
Milanković cherished Marko Kraljević all his life, Marko’s slavery and
then freedom from Turkish prison shackles served as an inspiration to
him to stand up alone against whole contemporary science, which was
going astray rejecting astronomic theory of the climate change. on
the other side, Wongar believes that he learned all important things
in life from the traditional poetry: ethics and esthetics, history and
skills. This knowledge acquired from the history on Serbian culture
was brought to australia and incorporated in all Wogner’s work de-
spite all the hardship he encountered over the years. Milanković and
Wongar both succeeded to form and achieve their own creative aim
simply because they consciously or subconsciously relied on Serbian
culture heritage that had been conveyed to them in the elementary
school and through spoken legacy of their fathers.
Milanković`s father Milan as “the member of the assembly in ep-
archy and archdiocese of Karlovci and political leader of Serbs plow-
men in Dalj, Belo Brdo, and Borovo”, praised and defended with
passion Serbian culture heritage in all of his public speeches and publi-