Summary
Sava Damjanov: Serbian erotikon
...I would point out how the erotic experience is condensed in proverbs; and through the proverbs "Našla young sikiru za vrati" and "Someone else's wife, and her own sikira" I would switch to the song that is partially known to us from Vuk's period "All the birds sing beautifully, but the blackbird"; there it is mentioned that the guest is afraid of the bujak sikira! As you can see, an ax can go a long way. Here I would now quote Sava Damjanova about the Predvuk character of erotic songs; I would add that the song in which all the birds sing beautifully, especially the blackbird, is from Avram Miletić's song. And it is in that songbook that the most linguistically successful erotic songs are recorded - that's where the language game sometimes reaches virtuosity. About Sava Damjanov himself, I would say just one sentence that would refer to his entire research work. Something like, how he searches for what is alive in our literary tradition - sometimes ready to give that literary tradition artificial respiration... (Milivoj Nenin)
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