Summary
Aleksandar Deroko: And then a plane flew over Belgrade
The name Aleksandar Deroko implies decades of proven originality. This multi-faceted and curious writer and speaker, painter and tireless pilgrim, pilot and archaeologist, photographer and restorer, one of the famous 1300 corporals and mountaineers; in the end, the academician and companion of poets and athletes was a precious link that encompassed and connected two colorful and turbulent centuries with his work. The book A onda letijo jeroplan nad Beograd, whose fluttering title is taken from the signature of one of his brightly colored watercolors, is a collection of ingenious and timeless memories and autobiographical notes, memoirs and anti-memoirs through which Derocco wrote an apotheosis and unforgettable pages about Belgrade in the 19th and 20th centuries, about its heroes, picnic spots, public baths; about water fun, street vendors, unusual fashion... On these exciting pages, the most space is devoted to the adventure of experience, with almost erotic details of travel and everyday life. Derok's Belgrade was so bright and crowded, dressed as relatives and famous characters, so was his Paris, which he consumed tirelessly with his friend Rastko Petrović. Nightmares from Thessaloniki, the top of Constantinople or the terrible unrest of Banjica were already different. Through Jeroplan, Deroko wove gilded sentences always in a sensory, tangible space, putting them together as simply as building a house, like a monument, simply, for everyone and forever...
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