Summary
Matija Bećković: My friend Đido
In the book My friend Đido, Matija Bećković describes one of those friendships that defy history and ideologies. On the one hand - the son of a man who was swallowed up by the communist darkness, on the other - a revolutionary who was at the top of that same regime, and then became its most famous dissident. Fidelity was born between the two of them: conversations, letters and an intimacy that quietly broke down the walls built by wars and revenge. Bećković's Milovan Đilas is neither a marble leader nor a cold historical figure, but Đido, a man, a friend. Vulnerable, suspicious, burdened by both his faith and his failures. The poet illuminates it with warmth, so the book is more like a poem in prose than a memoir. The strength of the story lies in this tenderness and simplicity. My friend Gido is not a book about the past, but a book about the eternal question - how to find a man in another, even when history assigns him to us as an enemy. And that is, perhaps, the greatest victory that literature can win.
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