Shopov, Aco (Shtip, 20. 1923 – Skopje, 20. ⅳ 1982) – Fighter, poet and translator, essayist, first editor of “Young Fighter”, editor of several literary journals in Macedonia, ambassador to Senegal (1972-1976 ), president of the former Union of Literary Translators of Yugoslavia. Member of the Macedonian PEN Center, as well as the DPM, from its establishment (1947). He is one of the most deserves that Macedonian poetry for relatively shortly overcome collectivist and sacrificing tones. He opened his doors of the Macedonian poetry expression to modernism with his intimacy. Critic-a. Shopov and President of Senegal L.S. Senangor organizes his work in four rounds: the first (1944-1950), which begins with his first poetry “songs, and ends with” Gramos “; The second constituting his work is made with both his collections “Verses for the pain and joy” (1952) and “the wind brings a nice time” (1957); The third, which is mainly in the sign of the two most important poichoshibitions “Nonibilian” (1963) and “viewer in the ashes” (1970) and the fourth that is mapped with the two last books “songs for the black woman” (1976) and “wood on the hill” ( 1980). The book that made a milestone not only in the work of Z., But also in Macedonian literature in general, is the collection of “verses for pain and joy”. Namely, it was poetically shaken solid ramparts of the previous Sprealistic model of creature. In that 1952 The controversial Collection of the Sh. It initiated it, and then fueled the Decade of Confrontation between “realists” and “Modernists”. They will argue about the nature of realistic art, for its actuality and the possibility ie. The impossibility of renewing in ⅹⅹ c., the importance of the adoption of artistic discoveries of Western European literatures, the world’s experience of avant-gardeism and modernism. True Shopov as a poet, however, comes out with the verses of his third circle. The notions “non-nook” and “black sun” of his poetic lexica S “still keep their mystical power and do not stop being challenging and incentive for various critical courts and decipers. Part: Poetry: Songs (1944), Round of youth (together with S. Janevski, 1947), Gramos (1950), with our hands (1950), verses for pain and joy (1952), followed with silence (1955 ), The wind brings a nice time (1957), non-bunch (1963), Jus-Universe (1968), viewer in ashes (1970), songs for the black woman (1976), tree on the hill (1980). Lit.: Miodrag Foreign, history of Macedonian literature ⅹⅹ century (1990); The work of ACO Shopov – a symposium on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of Aco Shopov (1993); Lidija Capusevska-Drakulevska, Poetics of the Unspective (2002). C. M.- Vladimir Shopov
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