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  • Milorad Pavić
  • Milorad Pavić
    Translated by Mirjana N Radovanov-Matarić

Milorad Pavić (1929–2009) graduated in the History of Literature from the University of Belgrade. Included among his many publications are 40 books of novels, short stories, and poems as well as one play. Additionally, he produced 20 books of translations of great authors of English, Russian, and French literature. A member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, he was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Singidunum

Under my wheels the echo of two roads feels the upper, a shadow of the Roman legions’ trail at crossroads with turned off headlight another kind of radiance soars over the night fast alongside the dark woods with tips already in tomorrow’s light.

It is not the sunrise losing one of the roads I awake into a barbarian joyous heat and under new hair akin to white feathers I assault Flavius’ legion’s seat.

(1969)

Credit to Ratomir Damjanović: text from his personal collection of writings on Belgrade [End Page 162]

Mirjana N Radovanov-Matarić
2010
mira016@hotmail.com
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