Slavoslavlje, Dvadeset i drugo, Slovo o bolesti (tok) KAMENI SPAVAČ - MAK DIZDAR (Stone Slee.) (032)

Mak dizdar - Kameni Spavač (za one koji ne vide ali mogu da čuju)
Mak Dizdar - Stone Sleeper (for those who do not see but may hear)

Mehmedalija "Mak" Dizdar (17 October 1917 - 16 July 1971) was one of the greatest Bosnian and

Yugoslav poets of the second half of the 20th century. Mak Dizdar was born to a Bosniak family in Stolac

Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1917. In 1936, Dizdar relocated to Sarajevo where he attended and

graduated from the Gymnasium. Dizdar spent his World War II years as a supporter of the Communist

Partisans. He moved frequently from place to place in order to avoid the NDH authorities' attention.

After the war, Dizdar was a prominent figure in the cultural life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, working as

the editor-in-chief of the daily Oslobođenje (Liberation). He served as head of a few state-sponsored

publishing houses and eventually became a professional writer and the President of the Writers' Union

of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post he held until his death. Dizdar's two poetry collections and series of

longer poems, Kameni spavač ("Stone sleeper") (1966--1971) and Modra rijeka (1971), fused seemingly

disparate elements. He drew inspiration from pre-Ottoman Bosnian Christian culture, from the sayings of

heterodox Islamic visionary mystics, and from the 15th century Bosnian vernacular linguistic idiom. His

poetry referenced medieval Bosnian tombstones ("stećci" or "mramorovi" - marbles) and their gnomic

inscriptions on the ephemerality of life. It articulated a distinctive vision of life and death, drawing on

Christian and Muslim Gnostic sensibilities of life as a passage between "tomb and stars", expressing both

the Gnostic horror of corporeality and a sense of the blessedness of the universe. After the collapse of

Communism and following the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dizdar's poetic magnum opus has

remained the cornerstone of modern Bosnia-Herzegovina literature.
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