ВОЈИН РАКИЋ КАО ПОЗНИ ЕКЕРМАН БОГДАНА ПОПОВИЋА
VOJIN RAKIĆ AS BOGDAN POPOVIĆ’S LATE ECKERMANN

Summary/Abstract: Ivo Tartalja, a Belgrade comparatist and literary aesthetician, compiled a book from the manuscript of conversations between his high school Russian language teacher, Vojin Rakić, and Rakić’s professor, Bogdan Popović, held from 1941 until Popović’s death on November 7, 1944. The book, published in 2004, serves as a kind of transcript of these conversations. Conducted in an atmosphere of complete trust, the conversations illuminate the life of Bogdan Popović: the family into which he was born and raised, his childhood, adolescence, and youth; his education from elementary school to the Belgrade Higher School; his professors and subjects; his studies in Paris; his appointment as professor of general literary history; his work at the Higher School; the First World War; exile in London; work at the University; his unrealized plans and projects – all the way to his death in 1944. The appendices include several recollections by Popović’s contemporaries about this comparatist, literary aesthetician, theorist, and critic. This valuable book clarifies many aspects of Popović’s life and work and sheds light on numerous figures of his time (Jovan Dučić, Laza Kostić, Radoje Domanović, King Alexander, Prince Đorđe...). It also outlines Popović’s views on science and politics. Tartalja emerges as a scrupulous, responsible, and highly competent editor.

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