115 years since the birth of the famous Montenegrin writer Risto Ratković was marked last night at the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.
Ratković did not write much, but certain works, primarily poetic, make him one of the founders of modern Montenegrin literature. According to prof. Dr. Olga Vojičić Komatina, poetry served to Ratković to find his dead ones, but also to continue to live and overcome everyday life.
“Intertwining poetry and tangible reality, mixing dreams and awareness, he created works of extraordinary sensitivity, works that have become icons of poetry in their own way. Often without noticing a clear line between the dream world and reality, he produced personal poetic principles in which the dream became the basic state of his creation. In fact, the dream has become a runaway from his life and as he himself says fantastic steepness”, said Vojičić Komatina.
This poet, she added, through his creative path passes through different shaping definitions, explaining that although surrealism is a significant formative norm of his expression, he never fully accepted the absence of logic and incoherence, but there have always been flow of thought in his works.
“Imagination was fruitful, colorful and very productive. It was Risto Ratković’s slogan to violate reality by a dream. He sought for himself in another life, a life that was definitely an anti-life to an existing reality”, Vojičić Komatina concluded.
Risto Ratković, poet, drama writer and first Montenegrin romance writer, was born in a commercial family in Bijelo Polje on September 3, 1903. He finished elementary school in his hometown, and high schoool in Novi Pazar. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1936.
He published his first book “Mrtve rukavice” in 1927, and in the same year, together with Moni de Buli, a poem “Leviatan”. He then printed a book of critical sketches “Ćutanja o književnosti” and a three act tragedy “Zoraj”. The collection of poems “Dodiri” came out in 1952, and the book of poems “Sa Orijenta” was published posthumously, in 1955. A selection from the poet’s poetic creativity was published under the name “Risto Ratković” in Belgrade and a selection from the poetic, prose, drama and critical works “Ponoć mene” was published in Titograd in 1966.
Ratkovic is the author of the first novel in the Montenegrin literature “Nevidbog”, which contains many autobiographical elements, depictures the First World War, and discovers a place unknown to the literature until that time. The novel was first published in 1933, and now after 85 years, “Nevidbog” will be republished within the newly started edition of the National Library of Montenegro – “Neprolazni romani”.
115 years since the birth of the famous Montenegrin writer Risto Ratković was marked last night at the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.
Ratković did not write much, but certain works, primarily poetic, make him one of the founders of modern Montenegrin literature. According to prof. Dr. Olga Vojičić Komatina, poetry served to Ratković to find his dead ones, but also to continue to live and overcome everyday life.
“Intertwining poetry and tangible reality, mixing dreams and awareness, he created works of extraordinary sensitivity, works that have become icons of poetry in their own way. Often without noticing a clear line between the dream world and reality, he produced personal poetic principles in which the dream became the basic state of his creation. In fact, the dream has become a runaway from his life and as he himself says fantastic steepness”, said Vojičić Komatina.
This poet, she added, through his creative path passes through different shaping definitions, explaining that although surrealism is a significant formative norm of his expression, he never fully accepted the absence of logic and incoherence, but there have always been flow of thought in his works.
“Imagination was fruitful, colorful and very productive. It was Risto Ratković’s slogan to violate reality by a dream. He sought for himself in another life, a life that was definitely an anti-life to an existing reality”, Vojičić Komatina concluded.
Risto Ratković, poet, drama writer and first Montenegrin romance writer, was born in a commercial family in Bijelo Polje on September 3, 1903. He finished elementary school in his hometown, and high schoool in Novi Pazar. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1936.
He published his first book “Mrtve rukavice” in 1927, and in the same year, together with Moni de Buli, a poem “Leviatan”. He then printed a book of critical sketches “Ćutanja o književnosti” and a three act tragedy “Zoraj”. The collection of poems “Dodiri” came out in 1952, and the book of poems “Sa Orijenta” was published posthumously, in 1955. A selection from the poet’s poetic creativity was published under the name “Risto Ratković” in Belgrade and a selection from the poetic, prose, drama and critical works “Ponoć mene” was published in Titograd in 1966.
Ratkovic is the author of the first novel in the Montenegrin literature “Nevidbog”, which contains many autobiographical elements, depictures the First World War, and discovers a place unknown to the literature until that time. The novel was first published in 1933, and now after 85 years, “Nevidbog” will be republished within the newly started edition of the National Library of Montenegro – “Neprolazni romani”.
He died in Belgrade on June 18, 1954.