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Serbian poet (1879?1898)
Kosta Abra?evi?
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1879-05-29
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29 May 1879
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(1898-01-20)
(aged 18)
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Kosta Abra?evi?
or
Kosta Abra?
(
Serbian Cyrillic
:
Коста Абрашеви?
, 29 May 1879 ? 20 January 1898) was a Serbian poet, progenitor of proletarian poetry in Serbian literature.
Life
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Kosta Hristi? was born in
Ohrid
in the
Manastir Vilayet
of the
Ottoman Empire
(in present-day
North Macedonia
) on 29 May 1879 to a poor merchant family. His father, Naum Hristi?, was
Serb
and his mother Sotira was
Greek
.
After finishing three years in a Greek school in Ohrid, he continued his schooling at a gymnasium (high school) in
?abac
, where he started using the patronymic of his father's nickname "Abra?" as a surname. Early on in his life he came in contact with
Socialist
ideas, and founded a political-writer group in ?abac, which published magazines
Omirov venac
and
Grbonja
. In his poetry social ideas are prevalent. This could be seen in his poem
Red
, where the expression "Ruby-red" is associated with blood and "Mighty veins," "lighting" and "dark eyes" all showed the inevitable triumph of the workers and the crushing defeat of tyrants (Turks). He translated German Socialist poets. His original poems are found in socialist magazines after his death, and his collection, which had seen many editions, was printed by high school and college student groups in 1903. His works are translated into Russian, Hungarian, Albanian and Romanian, also some of his works are interpreted by composers such as S. Anđeli? and M. ?ivkovi?. He died in ?abac on 20 January 1898 from
tuberculosis
at the age of 18.
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Today many cultural and artistic societies throughout Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina carry his name. He remains a forgotten figure in Serbian poetry, although many critics consider his poems to be significant for the poetic emergence in the ranks of the former Yugoslav proletariat. The poems of Kosta Abrasevi? reflect strong dissatisfaction and rebellion against the then-position of the dominant and privileged class?the Turk?and thus are paradoxically and prematurely identified as proletarian and socialist. Kosta Abrasevi? died too young to make a significant mark in literature.
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Sources
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- M. Мило?кови? (1951).
Коста Абрашеви?
. Живот и рад, Београд.
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