Has /lit/ read anything Serbian? Prose/Poetry. What did

>>8766754
Haven't read anything but I've heard a lot of people (Jacom Grimm) say that Serbian Epic Poetry is some of the best and most touching.

>>8766811
Goethe loved it, too, if I am right. Must be good.

>>8766845
All serbian epic poetry is written in decasyllabic verse, usually no rhyming, but it's filled with allegories, metaphors, anaphoras, epiphoras, etc...

Here's Hasanaginica, my favorite.

What's so white upon yon verdant forest?
Snow perhaps it is or swans assembled?
Snow would surely long ago have melted.
And a flight of swans would have departed.
No! not swans, not snow it is you see there,
'Tis the tent of Aga, Hasan Aga;
On his couch he lies, severely wounded.
And his mother seeks him, and his sister,
But for very shame his wife is absent.

When the misery of his wounds was softened,
Hasan thus his faithful wife commanded:
"In my house thou shalt abide no longer—
Thou shalt dwell no more among my kindred."
When his wife had heard this awful sentence,
Numbed with dread she stood and full of sorrow.
When outside she heard the tramp of horses,
To the highest window of the tower
Rushed the faithful Hasanaginica,
Would have thrown herself into the courtyard,
But her two beloved daughters followed.
Crying after her in tearful anguish—

"Do come back to us, oh, mother, mother!
These are not our father Hasan's coursers,
'Tis our uncle Pintorovich coming."
Then, returning, Hasanaginica
Threw her arms in misery round her brother—
"See the sorrow, brother, of thy sister:
He would tear me from my helpless children."
He was silent—but from out his pocket.
Safely wrapped in silk of deepest scarlet.
Letters of divorce he drew, and bid her
Seek again her aged mother's dwelling—
Free to win and wed another husband.
When she saw the letter of divorcement,
Parting-kisses on her two boys' foreheads,
On her girls' red cheeks she pressed in sorrow.
But she could not tear herself from baby
Crowing at his mother from the cradle.
But at last her brother with an effort
Tore the mother from her tender infant,
Put her close behind him on his courser.
Hastened with her to the white-hued homestead.

But a short while dwelt she with her people—
Not a single week had been completed,
When a host of suitors wooed the lady
Of a noble family the flower;
One of them Imoski's mighty Cadi.
Said the noble lady, trembling greatly,
"I entreat thee, I implore thee, brother,
Do not give me to another husband.
For the sight of my poor orphan'd children
Sure would break the spirit of thy sister!"

Little cared her brother for her sorrows;
He had sworn she should espouse the Cadi.
Then his sister asked of him a favour:
"Write on snow-white paper, O, my brother.
To the Cadi as a bridal message,
'Friendly greetings from the youthful woman.
And she begs thee bring her as a present.
When thy wedding-guests and thou art coming
Hither to her peoples' white-hued homestead,
Such a long and flowing veil that passing
Aga's home she need not see her orphans.'
1/2

When the snow-white letter reached the Cadi,
All his wedding-guests he called together,
And set out with them for his betrothed,
Future mistress of his white-hued homestead.
Safely reached he with his friends her dwelling;
Happily were all returning homeward,
But when they were passing Aga's homestead.
Her two daughters saw her from the window.
Her two sons came out, and from the portal
Called to her, "Come hither! O, come hither!
Take thy night's repast with thine own children!"

Sadly Hasanaginica heard them;
And she said to him who led the party,
"I should be most grateful to you, captain.
If you kindly halted the procession
While I give some presents to the children."

So they stopped at the beloved portal.
Presents gave she unto all the children.
To the boys, high boots with gold embroidered;
To the girls, long and resplendent dresses;
And a silken garment to her baby.—


Near them sat their father, Hasan Aga,
And he called in sorrow to his children,
"Come to me, poor children! to your father.
From your mother do not hope for pity.
Callous is she, cold and stony-hearted."

Hasanaginica, when she heard this.
On the ground she fell all pale and trembling.
And her spirit left its earthly prison
At the glances of her orphan children.
2/2

>>8766754
yeah I read a Serbian book and it was the tits:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2212826.Che?ac=1&from_search=true

>>8766900

shut up nerd

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>>8766754
is this guy related

Go away Tolkien

>>8769178
What in the fuck is that?

>>8770151
It's a photo that was posted in the "Faces of /b/" thread, back in October, I think; it's been used a lot in all threads since then

>>8766845
>>8766845
He enjoyed at the least Karadzic, but that was without much deep knowledge of Serbian literature. In fact, Europe is still only slowly discovering Balkan literature that isn't Greek. While Goethe was ahead of his time in terms of appreciation of the global and nonexclusive tradition of poetry, it's almost pseudy how Goethe stated how much he enjoyed reading his era's equivalent of the Wikipedia notes on Serbian poetry. A year later he turned against Serbian song in general, comparing it to crudeness of medieval German literature (which the pathetic Nibelungenlied belongs with).

Is 'The Bridge on the Drina' by Ivo Andric worth a read?

>>8770367
Its a modern novel in its core but andric is special because he can actually write things that are interesting and a pleasure to read unlike 99% of modernists who are a huge elitist pain in the ass

Bridge on drina is probably best of his stuff because it has least of liberal bullshit his other works are overfilled with

Except the surprisingly nice way of writing it has a ton of history and its interesting primarily from that angle, but i read it in original so cant tell about translations

>>8770404
Okay thanks, I will look into it. I never had seen it discussed here, even though Andric won the Noble Prize for it.

>>8770404
What are some good scenes in it?

>>8770422
When they impale some blokes and describe it in detail
you actually learn something interesting

>>8766754
>Milorad Pavić: Dictionary of The Khazars
If Borges would ever have written a novel, that could be something like this.

>>8770418
Mostly because nobody cares about slavic literature because its not as progressive and avantgarde like western

That nobel prize caused a ton of butthurt from krleža's retarded fanboys in the establishment because the commies circlejerk praised krleža to no end and when nirmal non brainwashed ppl concluded hes just a charlatan and andric they demonized was actually good it was trumpvictory-tier salt here

>>8770432
>>8770430
Are you guys eastern European? There are just enough grammatical fuck ups to call shenanigans here.

Progressive and Avant Garde are useless terms here because there's nothing progressive or boundary pushing happening in western European literature these days.

>>8770237
>Nibelungenlied
>pathetic
You know what never mind I take back anything good I ever said about Serbian poetry.

>>8770442
Sort of, im from central/eastern europe

>Progressive and Avant Garde are useless terms here because there's nothing progressive or boundary pushing happening in western European literature these days.
Literature is not supposed to be some kind of neohegelian experiment western academia is trying to make it to devalue it, its supposed to be something beautiful, not a bunch of bullshit retards like joyce, cake man and later meaningless postmodern turned it into

>>8770432
>when nirmal non brainwashed ppl concluded hes just a charlatan
Could you please not post such gargantuan and shameless lies on the internet?

>>8770461
T. Croatian language teacher still crying himself to sleep about his senpai nit getting respected

>>8770464
My senpai gets a fuckton of respect, though. In Zagreb there are three of his plays currently on repertoire, four of his books are required school readings, there's an annual festival dedicated to him, he has a large site dedicated entirely to his works and life, he is constantly studied and written about etc etc etc.
No other Croatian writer gets this sort of treatment. Saying that he "isn't respected" is a "mozart is underrated"-tier meme.

>>8770481
and where the fuck is this zagreb place? might as well be part of the goatfuck middle east.

>>8770485
WEW
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>>8770481
Exactly what i was saying
Croats are a bunch of commie circlejerkers
Go suck on some titos dead dick and then proceed to neck yourself

>>8770485
3 hours from Vienna.

Tisma. Fucking based

>>8770237
The vast vast majority of Serbian or Croatian or the other usual suspect epic poetry is made up at a particular place and time by normal people, it's a folk tradition p much. So whether he was exposed to particularly good epic poetry is very debatable.

>>8770496
(You)

It was "You forgot Poland" tier.

Of course an insignificant country is going to celebrate whatever barely talented schlock that comes their way.

>>8770516
That's certainly not how epics came to be in Croatia. It's not a folk tradition, the most famous ones were written by aristocrats, priests and politicians.

>>8770517
>barely talented schlock
finally somebody who understands krleža

>>8770523
The most famous anythings are often written by famous people dingbat. I don't know if the Croatians had their version of Karadzic, but he's p much like a Brothers Grimm, collecting folk songs, stories, riddles etc. so that might explain your confusion, but did it never cross your mind why the guzla is so important, why it's so simple, why the nationalists cream themselves over it and writing new ones and so on?

>>8770509
Wait, aren't Croats supposed to be nazi collaborators and filthy ustashas?
Now I'm confused

>>8770537
Every national faction is everything to everybody. Ustase were also like actual Nazis, they built concentration camps and everything, but there were various Nazi sympathizers across the nationalities. The strongest communist faction was led by the Croat Tito who you may remember was the benevolent friend of Yugoslavia for a few decades. The more communist Serbs are probably thought of as closer to syndicalists as well.

Anyway, I digress from my original point, you can almost put any set of adjectives ahead of any nationality and at some point that kind of person has existed.

>>8770537
Used to be before 45

>>8770517
What a coward, responding after I have left.
You are delusional and clearly enjoy reading Serbian literature. A good day to you, kid.

>>8766754
Houses by Pekiç is pretty good, friends.

>>8770630
What sort of tone does it have?

>>8766896
>hasanaginica
>serbian

What the fuck are you talking about

>>8770717
fuck history stealing mahmood

>>8770512
good answer