Momčilo Nastasijević

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

Life

Momcilo Nastasijevićs father was a builder, a brother became a composer. He studied in Belgrade French language and literature. Even during World War II, he began writing poetry and short stories that appeared in magazines in 1922 and first in 1923. He practiced in Belgrade from the bread grammar school teacher. Nastasijevic wrote lyrical dramas, opera libretti, stories, and especially poem cycles in which the archaic and folkloric elements allied themselves with bold neologisms and motives of decadence. His main work is the 1932 published in a self-published collection of poems Pet lirskih krugova ( Five lyrical circles).

His style is hermetically sealed and therefore difficult to access. Vasko Popa and Miodrag Pavlović have promoted later for his poetry.

Works (selection)

• Are wings well. . . Poems and prose. Edited and translated into German by Robert Hodel. Leipzig literature Verlag, Leipzig 2013