No one in Serbian literature has confessed love and woman with such fierceness and intensity as this writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Borisav Stankovi\u0107 is a turning-point writer of Serbian artistic prose with whom modern Serbian literature begins. In his short stories, dramas and novels, he presented an image of his hometown Vranje at the turning point between the Turkish era and the modern age. His themes are socially determined, while in the manner of depiction an inner, psychological perspective prevails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Borisav Stankovi\u0107 was born in Vranje on March 31, 1876, where he also attended primary school. He attended high school in Ni\u0161, and studied law in Belgrade. He wrote collections of short stories: \u201cFrom the Old Gospel\u201d (1879), \u201cOld Days\u201d (1902), \u201cGod\u2019s People\u201d (1902); dramas: \u201cKo\u0161tana\u201d (1902), \u201cJov\u010da\u201d (1927), \u201cTa\u0161ana\u201d (1928); novels: \u201cImpure Blood\u201d (1910), \u201cMaster Mladen\u201d (1927), \u201cThe Roosters\u201d (unfinished novel). He died in Belgrade on October 22, 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it is said that Stankovi\u0107 was the first in Serbian literature to speak about the soul, this primarily refers to the perspective in his works that turns from the external world toward the individual and his complex inner world. His poetic realism implies a deep immersion into the psychology of the literary character. His characters were not satisfied with reality, social principles, circumstances and expectations, so they retreated into themselves, into their memories, their fantasies, only to encounter there again what they had been escaping from. As professor Du\u0161an Marinkovi\u0107 says: \u201cthat elusive individual, that unrepeatable self.\u201d Stankovi\u0107\u2019s heroes discover themselves by fully, unreservedly living through their passions, which society restricts or completely forbids. Because feelings and experiences cannot be prescribed, they are free and interwoven with lyrical sensuality, and in that freedom with tragic sublimity. That is why Stankovi\u0107 became the first writer who truly looked into the human body, into its physiological and psychological dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Borisav Stankovi\u0107 was the first to turn to the crisis of identity, which is the central place of modern literature. As professor Danica Andrejevi\u0107 observes: \u201cMan\u2019s dividedness, duality, the split within the being, enabled the presence of unconscious and erotic metamorphoses of the characters. He incorporated modernism into the old-fashioned content of his characters.\u201d What is modern is that \u201cImpure Blood\u201d is the first Serbian novel in which we have a major erotic female protagonist. No one in our literature has confessed love and woman with such fierceness and intensity as this writer. He is also modern in his sense of alienation, the vulnerability of being, a merciless existence, where the being cannot realize its essence. Stankovi\u0107 is a narrator of feelings, love, longing, anxiety, fear, pain, suffering. He presents the theme of love and the theme of the erotic as divided themes, which intertwine and diverge. Thus the awakening of happiness, illusion, rapture and youth merge and flow into the theme of misfortune, destruction and self-destruction. A human being, regardless of gender, is shown as an extremely complex and contradictory being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n