Momčilo Nastasijević

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Momčilo Nastasijević (born September 23, 1894 in Gornji Milanovac , Kingdom of Serbia , † February 13, 1938 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Serbian poet.

Life

Momčilo Nastasijević's father was a builder, one brother became a composer. He studied French language and literature in Belgrade . During the First World War he began to write poetry and short stories, which first appeared in magazines in 1922 and 1923. In Belgrade he worked as a high school teacher. Nastasijević wrote lyrical dramas, opera libretti, stories, but above all poetry cycles in which archaic and folklore elements combined with bold neologisms and motifs of decadence . His main work is the self-published poetry collection Pet lirskih krugova ( Five Lyric Circles ) in 1932 .

His style is hermetic and therefore difficult to access. Vasko Popa and Miodrag Pavlović have advocated for his poetry later.

Works (selection)

  • Are wings ... poems and prose . Edited and translated into German by Robert Hodel . Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ilma Rakusa : The poetry of Momčilo Nastasijević. A Serbian Hermetic , NZZ , September 7, 2013, p. 23