Marko Ristić

Marko Ristić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Марко Ристић ; born July 20, 1902 in Belgrade , † July 20, 1984 ) was a Yugoslav writer.

life and career

He was the protagonist of Serbian surrealism . Although he wrote mainly poetry ( Od sreće i od sna , 1925; Nox microcosmica , 1956), he was best known for his essays, which had a strong political orientation ( Književna politika , 1952, and Istorija i poezija , 1962).

Ristić attended schools in Belgrade , Kruševac and Switzerland , graduated from Belgrade in 1921 and graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade in 1925. As early as 1922, he and Milan Dedinac published the magazine Putevi (ways), where the Belgrade modernists of the time also published. In the second issue his first literary text, Praštanje , appears . Three years later he edited a special issue with Miloš Crnjanski .

Shortly afterwards he broke with modernism and published the literary magazine Svedočanstva with Rastko Petrović , Dušan Matić , Milan Dedinac , Aleksandar Vučo and Mladen Dimitrijević , which is considered to be the birth moment of Serbian surrealism ( nadrealizam ). At the end of 1925 he published his first volume of poetry, Od sreće i od sna . After several months in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of the French surrealists, he wrote the book Bez mere .

Web links

• Trilingual site on Serbian surrealism (Serbian, French, English)