THE SEA GRAVE AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE SEA GRAVE AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Milutin Bojić is another poet with whom Ivan V. Lalić had engaged in a double dialogue: by writing an essay on his poetry and by establishing an intertextual relationship with his poetry in his own verses. One would have to live for many years to create something worthy and mature—it seems Ivan V. Lalić also had this, many times restated, notion in mind when he began writing his essay on Bojić’s poetry. Bojić’s fate as a man and poet—his death at the age of twenty-five in 1917, the darkest year of World War I, far from his homeland, in Thessaloniki, having written poetry that only hints at maturity, but undoubtedly confirms exceptional talent—Lalić perceives as summed up “bitterness of the expression of a poet who writes in this language”: he is allowed to announce and foretaste his abilities, without fully actualizing them, only confirming “the paradox of a prematurely deceased poet”, “the paradox of both the comprehensiveness and roundedness of an uncompleted work of literature”.

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