Poetry
Скопјани
Not translated into English
Gane Todorovski · 1981
Synopsis
A collection of about a hundred pages that its author called a small collage of songs and other kinds of verse, all turned towards Skopje and those who live there. The poet counts himself among them: in “Биографија”, he tells in the first person of his birth, his life and his death to come, in the tone of an epitaph written for himself, between gravity and irony.
Context
The book was published in 1981, thirty years after its author's first collection. It contains the poem “Биографија”, which later editions title “Автобиографија”; Ranko Mladenoski and Tole Belčev read in it an epitaph for oneself, in the line of ancient epitaphs, and link it to the funerary vein that the poet followed in all his books, treating death with as much seriousness as humour.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, a short volume, with no French translation. It helps to know a little of the city, its districts and its recent history.
Prizes and reception
A collection from the maturity of a poet regarded as a major figure of his generation, one of whose poems is read as a modern epitaph.
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