Poetry
Молскавици
Not translated into English
Kole Nedelkovski · 1940
Synopsis
Sixteen poems, long or brief, dedicated to the poet's mother, an image of the enslaved homeland. They speak of revolutionary unrest and social injustice, love of the country, the exile of those who leave to work far away, the hard life of the Macedonians on the eve of the war, and set communist ideas against capital, with, beneath the anti-fascist impulse, a pessimism of suffering. The verse follows the model of the folk song.
Context
The collection appeared in Sofia in 1940, printed in the old Bulgarian orthography as Мъскавици, and written in the dialect of Veles and Skopje. Its author associated there with other poets from the same country, gathered in a literary circle. A second collection, Peš po svetot, appeared in August 1941, a few weeks before the poet disappeared; his collected works were published in 1981.
Who it is for
Sixteen poems in the dialect of Veles, printed in the Bulgarian orthography of the period; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
The critic Miodrag Drugovac sees in it a “precious contribution” to the meagre Macedonian poetry of the interwar period.
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