Rade Drainac: Seven decades later

• Main Author: Lazarević Velibor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić 2013-01-01
• Series: Baština
• Subjects: rade drainac; poet; journalist; rebel; tragic
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2013/0353-90081335073L.pdf

Figure out the riddle of life and poetry of Radojko Jovanović - Rade Drainac is not easy at all. How to speak up about the man who has lived and tortured himself for forty four years (Trbulje 1899 - Belgrade 1943) in a versatile and rough manner as hundreds of other unusual creative people, longevity, and spinsters. Cursed poet, unfortunate, king of bohemians, misled, solitary, restless spirit, outlaw who has never surrendered until the death. Poet of emotions, pain, rebellion, spasm, whose poems are at one moment weeping and wailing, at another anger, curse and spit, afterwards anxious heart, turbulent blood flow, bustling mind and underground of being. The poet of intoxicated poetry, story-teller, essays-writer, novelist... Adventurer in his life, adventurer in poetry for whom it can be said how he lived so he wrote, painfully, restlessly, fragmented, bouncy, uneven, poetized... Poet of the collection 'The Blue Laughter'(1920) which he published in his 21st year of life, and journalist from 1922 - these two occupations will remain the life commitment of this adventurous and restless man. He was essentially poet and journalist (as such he was the author of travelling and documentary reports, literary critic and theoretician, sociologist of domestic and world scene, and reverse of its modernity), but he wished to be the holder of many roles: painter, protector of workers and poor ones, revolutionary... This modest review is a scrapbook on 70 years of his death (1943-2013).