Predrag R. Dragić Kijuk (

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: Предраг Р. Драгић Кијук; 8 December 1945 – 29 January 2012) was a Serbian humanist, writer, essayist, anthologist, playwright, literary and art critic, lexicographer, medievalist, historian, translator, philosopher and researcher of Dostoevsky. He graduated at the Belgrade University:

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and

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, and took specializations in Italy, Greece, Russia, France and Norway.

Biography

Dragić was operational editor of the ''Serbian Literary Magazine'' and the editor in chief of the ''Literary Newspaper''). He authored many books, studies, and essays, five of which have been translated into foreign languages. He specifically studied old Serbian literature (in 1987 he published the provocative and voluminous study ''Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry 1200-1700''). His themes of interest are diverse and original, and his intellectual curiosity is a mixture of modern world poetry, philosophy of numbers, Christian esthetics, the works of Dostoevsky,

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and Andreyev, the history of European civilization, European esoteric writers,

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, the phenomenon of migrations and the Christian-Orthodox mysticism. Also, he has devoted his attention in his two latest books to the aberration of modern politics and the influence of the

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on the destiny of the Serbian people (''Bestiarium Humanum'', 2002; ''Atlantocracy As a Jesuit Ideal'', 2005). His book ''Tempter and the Redeemer'' (1990) was the first to introduce the

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into the genre of essay writing in

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, equaling it to other methods in the interpretation of literature, while the book ''Going Out to Play'' (1990) has had cult influence on European

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. In 2003, Sir

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, the most popular British composer reputed as a "classical artist" used texts from the book ''Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry 1200-1700'' written by Predrag R. Dragić Kijuk, for his monumental work "The Veil of the Temple" (performed by four choirs, several orchestras and soloists, seven hours in duration).

Selected bibliography

* ''A Poem About The Goat'' (1974) * ''Demons Among Us'' - ''Criticism of the Work of F.M. Dostoevsky'' (1981) * ''Petar Mladenović'' (''a three-lingual monography about the academic painter'', 1986) * ''Medieval and Renaissance Serbian Poetry'' (in the English language, 1987) * ''Saga on Flight'' (1988) * ''Serbian Migrations - Miloš Crnjanski'' (in the English language, ''in co-authorship with M. Dačović''; (1988) * ''The Battle of Kosovo'' (in the English language, ''in co-authorship with D. Bataković'', 1988) * ''Vicarious Christi'' (1989) * ''The Ordeal Maker and the Redeemer'' (1990) * ''Coming Out for a Game'' (1990) * ''Catena Mundi'', l-ll (1992) * ''Declaration of Serbian Language'' ''in co-authorship with Dr. Vera Bojić and All.'' (1998) * ''The Little Legacy'', (1999) * ''Bestiarium humanum'' ("Political Dairy"; 2002) * ''Atlantocracy As a Jesuit Ideal'' (2005)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dragic, Predrag 1945 births 2012 deaths Writers from Kragujevac Serbian non-fiction writers Serbian literary critics Serbian humanists Serbian dramatists and playwrights Serbian translators Serbian medievalists Serbian male essayists Literary critics of Serbian Fyodor Dostoyevsky scholars 20th-century Serbian historians 20th-century Serbian novelists 20th-century Serbian philosophers 21st-century Serbian philosophers Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery