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Rastko Petrović


Born
in Belgrade, Serbia
March 03, 1898

Died
August 15, 1949

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Rastko Petrović (Belgrade, 1898 � Washington, D.C., 1949), poet, novelist, travel writer, essayist, ethnographer, gifted sketcher, cameraman and photographer. He graduated law in France, and on his return to Yugoslavia he worked as an art and literary critic. After this he was employed in the diplomatic service and posted to Italy and the USA. Based at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, D.C. during World War II, he remained in the United States after the war and died there.
He is considered to be one of the most important and most influential Serbian writers in the period between the two world wars.

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Afrika

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“-Mislite li da to vodi čemu: živeti?
-O, kad razmislim, ne! Ne verujem. Ali ima nečega divnog u tome što se živi, i baš zato što to ne vodi ničemu.”
Rastko Petrović, Ljudi govore

“Kakav rad!" mislim u sebi. "Tako bih voleo jednom da stvaram, skupljajući ono što je najbolje u bogaststvima oko mene, da preradim to zatim u jednu jedinstvenu homogenost. Na kraju rada pčelinog je med koji sadrži u sebi srž svih cvetova a nije čak ni skup onoga što su oni, već nešto novo i izvanredno. To nije ni ovaj, ni onaj cvet, to je med; i osobine su toliko drugačije da to čak nije ni miris pre svega, već ukus. Doći jednog dana na jedno jezero kao ovo, pristupiti svemu, svakome, slušati sve i gledati sve i posle, ne to opisati, već, iz toga načiniti nešto što će imati svoju boju, svoj ukus, svoj ton, svoj parfem, svoju sudbinsku patetičnost. Ne, ne, ne mislim to, već nešto što otprilike odgovara toj ideji. U svakom slučaju, trebalo bi napisati nešto imitujući pčele, nešto strahovito savremeno, a što ipak ne bi bilo: kao pčele!”
Rastko Petrović, Ljudi govore

“Слика није одговарала никаквој стварности; па, ипак, не питајући се због чега, испуних се новим животом. И то нису били прошли дани који су ме усрећавали, већ, као и одувек, вера у бескрајну лепоту онога што тек има да дође: да дође са много радости и са много трпљења.”
Rastko Petrović, Afrika