Marko Ristić (surrealist)

Marko Ristić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Ристић; 20 June 1902 – 20 July 1984) was a Serbian surrealist poet, writer, publicist and ambassador.

Marko Ristić
Born(1902-06-20)20 June 1902
Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Died20 July 1984(1984-07-20) (aged 82)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter, diplomat
Period20th century
GenrePoetry, essay, literary criticism
Literary movementSurrealism

Biography

Ristić was educated in Belgrade and Switzerland before graduating in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.[1] Dušan Matić, a fellow Serbian poet attracted to surrealism sent him surrealist publications from Paris.[2] He subsequently started corresponding with André Breton in 1923, following the publication Breton's first Surrealist Manifesto in Svedočanstva (Testimonies).[3] He visited Paris in 1926-1927 where he spent time with Breton and the Surrealist Circle and to see the surrealist works In Breton's flat.[4]

In 1939, Ristić was denounced by Tito as "intimate friend of the Paris Trotskyist and bourgeois degenerate person Breton" and for his goal of wanting to "enrich and complement" marxism and surrealism.[5]

Selected works
  • Od sreće i sna, 1925.
  • Bez mere, 1928.
  • Nacrt za jednu fenomenologiju iracionalnog, (Outline for the Phenomenology of Irrational), co-author with Koča Popović, 1931.
  • Anti-zid, (co-author with Vane Bor, 1932.
  • Književna politika, 1952.
  • Istorija i poezija, 1962.
  • Nox microcosmica, 1956.

References
  1. "Marko Ristić". Nadrealizam. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  2. Đurić, Dubravka; Djurić, Dubravka; Šuvaković, Miško; Suvakovic, Misko (2003). "Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991". MIT Press. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  3. Bahun-Radunovic, Sanja (2005). "When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia". RiLUnE (3): 37–52.
  4. "Marko Ristić". Avantgarde Museum. Avante Garde Museum. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  5. Tito, Josip Broz. "Tito - Trotskyism and Its Helpers". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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