Milan Dedinac
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Milan Dedinac (
Biography
Milan Dedinac was born into a middle–class family in
In 1924 and 1925 he was on the editorial board of Putevi (Trails) and Svedočanstvo (Testimonies) together with his friends, Rastko Petrović, Dušan Matić and Marko Ristić.
From the next decade (1931–1941) he was employed as an editor and later
From 1948 until 1953 he was Artistic Director of the Yugoslav Drama Theater. He was appointed culture attaché in the Yugoslav Embassy from 1953 to 1955, and from 1955 until 1965 he was the Director of the Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade. In 1957 he published the book Od nemila do nedraga (From Pillar to Post).
Works
- Pozorisne chronike (1950)[6]
- Pesme iz Dnevnika Zarobljenika Broj 60211 (1964)[4]
- Od nemila do nedraga (1957)[7]
- Poziv na putovanje (1965)[8]
- Sabrane pesme (1981)[9]
- Noč duža od snova (1972)[10]
Already after the first poems that Dedinac published, the critics pointed out lyricism, immediacy and musicality as its basic features. In his poetic development, he followed the opposite path from that of Crnjanski and other expressionists. The poet Stražilova, starting from very specific historical and erotic themes, strives for lyrical materialization (meaningless) of the subject. Dedinac, on the contrary, starts from fluid emotional states in order to later express quite specific existential and historical situations. His early poetic cycle Zar zora, već? - Zora! (Is It dawn, Yet? - Dawn! 1921-1922) [11] and Zorilo i nočilo (Dawn and Night), 1922, etc. resemble non-figurative painting, in which there are no objects but only lines and colours, or, even more, music, which by its very nature is deprived of any concrete concreteness. The endpoint of that way of singing was reached in the antipoem Javna ptica (1926),[2] considered to be one of the most important surrealist texts. The spontaneous lyricism of the first poems in it is suppressed by conscious searches and experimentation with expression and form.
The turn from the abstract lyricism of early poems to the poetry of reality begins with the poem "One Man at the Window" (1937). The basic situation is symbolic: the poet is at the window, more precisely behind a closed window, and he is watching a storm raging around the city. It is as if he is struggling to separate himself from the closed and safe world in which he lived until then, he turns to the world outside himself, immerses himself in external events, longs for meetings and giving. While in this poem the situation of a man observing a disaster is given, in the folk collection, "Poems from the Diary of a Prisoner No. 60211" (1947), we have the situation of a man in a storm, the drama of a man falling into reality. The collection is a mixture of poetic prose and verse, diary entries and poems. It is poetry about slavery and suffering, about the longing for freedom, the poetry of love for the homeland, one's loved ones and the homeland, created in the best traditions of Serbian libertarian poetry. Dedinac brought his refined lyrical sensibility into it; the lyric is in it in an extraordinary way connected with the material data, with the historical circumstances. There is nothing declarative, parochial, programmatic in his songs; although imbued with the gloomy reality of the era, they remained the purest lyrics.
A completely different orientation is revealed by the poems in the collection Od nemila do nedraga (1957) called "Poetic Essays from Travels in Montenegro". Some of these poems were written before the war, but as a whole, the cycle was shaped in the post-war period, so that they can be taken as the third, final stage in Dedince's poetic development. On poetic travels in Montenegro, poets are not attracted by the destinies of people or the history of the country, but by nature, stone, birds, sun, olives, sky. That poetry is filled with heavenly vistas, sun and light. The poet sees Montenegro as a country open to heaven. Climbing the mountain cliffs ends with immersion in the sky. All songs are permeated with a longing to merge with nature, to disappear into space. In it, man is a participant in the great pantheistic drama of the world and the cosmos. The Montenegrin cycle thus completes Dedince's poetic work. Created in silence and solitude, that work is, after all, based on the best traditions of Serbian poetry, lyrical, libertarian and cosmic, and imbued with the disturbed rhythm of the epoch.
He is one of the people to whom Dobrica Ćosić dedicated a chapter in his novel "Friends".
Milan Dedinac was buried in the
Sources
- Milan Dedinac, "Collected Poems" in three volumes, Belgrade: publishing house "Filip Višnjić", 1983. p. 145—149.
See also
- Vane Bor
- Dušan Matić
- Aleksandar Vučo
- Koča Popović
- Radojica Živanović Noe
- Oskar Davičo
- Djordje Kostić
- Djordje Jovanović (writer)
- Petar Popović
- Marko Ristić
- Mladen Dimitrijević, nom de plume of Dimitrije Dedinac
External links
- P vip.svg Portal Biography
- Surrealist movement in Serbia
- "A Short Biography of Milan Dedinac." (in: (language: Serbian)). Surrealist movement in Serbia (www.serbiansurrealism.com). Retrieved July 27, 2010;
- Jovan Deretić, "A Short History of Serbian Literature (Surrealism)" (in: (language: Serbian)), Project Rastko. Retrieved July 27, 2010;
- "A Short Biography of Milan Dedinac." (in: (language: Serbian)). Serbian Music Forum. October 10, 2008 Retrieved July 27, 2010 [dead link];
- Jelena Milinković, editor (May–June 2009). "Topic dedicated to Milan Dedinac: A man at the window listening to a public bird" (in: (language: Serbian)). Agon, Journal of Contemporary Poetry, no. 3, May–June 2009. Archived from the original on August 2, 2011. Accessed August 18, 2010;
- Dubravka Bouša (March 30, 2010). "Poet branched out into the night" (in: (language: Serbian)). Fools: a blog dedicated to contemporary poetry. Retrieved July 27, 2010;
- Nebojša Djordjević, "A Short Biography of Milan Dedinac (Selection from Poetry)." (in: (language: Serbian)). Literary club "Branko Miljković" from Knjaževac. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
References
- ^ ISBN 9783111393964– via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Cross Currents". Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan. September 27, 1989 – via Google Books.
- ^ Vučo, Aleksandar; Davičo, Oskar; Dedinac, Milan; Živadinović, Vane; Živanović, Noe; Jovanović, Đorđe; Kostić, Đorđe S.; Matić, Dušan; Popović, Koča; Popović, Petar; Ristić, Marko (September 27, 1931). "Pozicija nadrealizma". Nadrealistička Izd. – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1964). "Песме Из Дневника Заробљеника Број 60211. Са Бакрописима Мила Милуновића" – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780199888498– via Google Books.
- ^ Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1950). "Pozorisne chronike". Prosveta – via Google Books.
- ^ Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1957). "Od nemila do nedraga, 1921–1956". Nolit – via Google Books.
- ^ Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1965). "Poziv na putovanje". Prosveta – via Google Books.
- ^ Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1981). "Sabrane pesme". Nolit – via Google Books.
- ^ Dedinac, Milan (September 27, 1972). "Noć duža od snova: izbor tekstova". Matica srpska – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9783110390995– via Google Books.
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