Miodrag Bulatović

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Miodrag Bulatović (Cyrillic Миодраг Булатовић; born February 20, 1930 in Okladi near Bijelo Polje , Yugoslavia , today Montenegro ; † March 15, 1991 in Igalo near Herceg Novi ) was a Yugoslav writer and politician from Montenegro.

Life

The Serbian-born Bulatović, who grew up in poor conditions in the archaic society of Montenegro, was an epileptic as a child and illiterate for many years as a teenager. He didn't read his first book until he was 16. He then completed his schooling in fast motion. At the age of 20 he graduated from high school and then studied philosophy at the University of Belgrade . He lived as a freelance writer in Belgrade. In 1962 he named his teachers as follows: "I'm close to Gogol, Dostojewskij, Edgar Allan Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus and Sartre. I am interested in Samuel Beckett and Eugen Ionesco." Because he got into trouble with censorship ( The hero on donkey back was used as a partisan-Parody understood and the printing of the novel prevented, so that it first appeared in Germany), he stayed in Paris in 1965/66.

At the end of his life, when Yugoslavia fell apart, he defended the Serbian position in newspaper articles and in Politika . As early as the late 1970s he participated in the defamation of the Jewish-Serbian author Danilo Kiš , called for the abolition of the Slovene language , was a member of the SPS Miloševićs in the Serbian parliament and some scholars also make a nationalist background in his literary works. ideological imprint. As a result of his sudden death, the vacant parliamentary seat fell to the ultra-nationalist Vojislav Šešelj through a by-election in Rakovica , thus favoring one of the main defendants of the Yugoslav wars in his rise.

Works

Bulatović is probably the most translated (over 40 languages) and best-known modern writer in Montenegro and one of the best-known representatives of the younger generation of Yugoslav authors. Despite the numerous German editions, it remained unpublished in the GDR . In his novels and stories he addresses memories of the Second World War and the partisan war; in general, the fight is a continuous motif of his work. His language is expressive and symbolic, brutal and taboo. Again and again he revolves around the problem of good and bad. As a playwright, his role model is Samuel Beckett.

  • Djavoli dolaze , Erzählungen 1956 (German selections: Die Liebenden, Munich 1962; Der Schwarze, Munich 1963; The story of happiness and unhappiness, Reinbek 1967)
  • Vuk i zvono , stories, Zagreb 1958 (German wolf and bell, Munich 1962)
  • Crveni petao leti prema nebu , Roman, Zagreb 1959 (German: The red rooster flies skywards, Reinbek 1960)
  • Heroj na magarcu , Roman 1964 (German: The hero on the donkey's back, Munich 1965)
  • Godo je došao , Drama 1965 (German Godot has come. Variation on a very old theme, Munich 1966)
  • Rat je bio bolji , Roman 1968 (German: The war was better, Munich 1968)
  • Najveća tajna sveta. Izabrane pripovetke , Belgrade 1971
  • Ljudi s četiri prsta , Roman 1975 (German: The Thumbless, Munich 1975)
  • Gullo Gullo , Roman, Belgrade 1983

literature

  • Antun Barac: History of the Yugoslav literatures from the beginning to the present . Wiesbaden 1977.
  • Horst Bienek: Borges, Bulatović, Canetti. Three conversations . Munich 1965

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b accents. Zeitschrift für Literatur , 6th year (1959), issue 2.
  2. ↑ Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (editor): The Press: An Unchanged Matrix. The media as a part of the anti-european front. Belgrade 2004, p. 109. (PDF; 1 MB; English) [accessed on August 5, 2016].
  3. ↑ Marko Plešnik: Discover Montenegro. Between Adria and Black Mountains , 2nd edition, Berlin 2004.
  4. ↑ Danilo Kiš: Anatomy Lesson , Munich 1998th
  5. ↑ Reinhard Lauer : Literatures , in: Südosteuropa. Society, politics, economy, culture. A manual , ed. by Magarditsch Hatschikjan / Stefan Troebst, Munich 1999, pp. 417–436.
  6. ^ Alida Bremer : Literatures and National Ideologies, in: Dunja Melčić: Der Yugoslavien-Krieg. Handbook on prehistory, course and consequences , Opladen / Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 268–286.
  7. ^ EastWest Institute (editor): The Challenge of Integration (Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 1997) , New York 1998. (English).
  8. ↑ Revija 92 (No. 663, Serbian-Latin).
personal data
SURNAME Bulatović, Miodrag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Миодраг Булатовић (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Okladi, Montenegro
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1991
Place of death Igalo