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Milovan Glišić

Born

in Gradac, Serbia

January 06, 1847

Died

February 01, 1908

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Horror

Influences

Gogol

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Milovan Glišić (1847–1908) was a famous Serbian writer, dramatist, and literary theorist. He is sometimes considered to be the Serbian Gogol, due to the Ukrainian author's influence on his writing.

Glišić began his literary translations in satirical newspapers, and then moved to the original short story. His original work includes two theater pieces, "Two coins" and "Spoofing" and two collections of short stories. The collections are, among others, his popular humorous and satirical stories: "Sugar Head", "Roga", "Not about what", "Pricker for fire", "Walk after death," An ominous number"," Rare beast " ; also "After ninety years" and a lyrical sketch "The first furrow".

Glišić is the most worked on translations from Russian and French litera Milovan Glišić (1847–1908) was a famous Serbian writer, dramatist, and literary theorist. He is sometimes considered to be the Serbian Gogol, due to the Ukrainian author's influence on his writing.

Glišić began his literary translations in satirical newspapers, and then moved to the original short story. His original work includes two theater pieces, "Two coins" and "Spoofing" and two collections of short stories. The collections are, among others, his popular humorous and satirical stories: "Sugar Head", "Roga", "Not about what", "Pricker for fire", "Walk after death," An ominous number"," Rare beast " ; also "After ninety years" and a lyrical sketch "The first furrow".

Glišić is the most worked on translations from Russian and French literature and eighties was the main and best translator from Russian and French. Conscientious and talented translator, and also a great connoisseur of Public language, he did the most to learn Serbian audience with the great Russian writers, and significantly influenced the development of his translations of literary language and style. The best and most important are his translations from Russian: "Dead Souls" and "Taras Bulba" by Gogol, "The Kreutzer Sonata "and" War and Peace" by Tolstoy, "Oblomov" by Goncharov, with the rest of Ostrovsky and Danchenko. The French had translated Balzac , Merimee, Jules Verne and others. For the theater has translated more than thirty pieces of Russian, French and German literature.

Milovan Glišić was known mostly for his realist stories, but he also had a few which included motifs of Serbian folklore and superstition. Most famous one is the story "After ninety years" (1880) who he wrote 17 years before Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula". In Glišić story the main character is Strahinya, a poor lad in the 19th century rural Serbia. He falls in love with a lovely daughter of a wealthy but ill-tempered Živan. He is almost driven from the village when the village boss, the priest and a few village elders see an opportunity for Strahinya. The village is plagued by a vampire attacking millers in an old mill: since no one dares to stay the night over there, the people are on the verge of famine. Strahinya agrees to do the job, and manages to survive the night hiding in the attic. After some troubles, the villagers manage to discover the vampire's grave. They pierce the (unopened) coffin with a stake, but due to clumsiness and fright of one of the company, a butterfly escapes from the coffin before it is sprinkled by the Holy water. It represents the soul of the vampire which remains undestroyed. Everybody thinks it's all over now, but in the end – the real horrors await Strahinya during his wedding night. Based on the story "After ninety years" (1880) in a 1973 a horror TV movie "Leptirica" ( The She-Butterfly) is made. "Leptirica" is considered one of the top Serbian and former Yugoslav horror films. ...more

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	Глава шећера 3.75 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 1875 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Ninety Years by Milovan Glišić, James Lyon (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Andrew Boylan 3.91 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1880 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pripovetke 4.20 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1880 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ИЗАБРАНЕ ПРИЧЕ 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Podvala 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prva brazda 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tri pripovijetke by Milovan Glišić, Laza Lazarević 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Fear and Superstition: Edited and Translated by Miloš Pavlović really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prva brazda i druge pripovetke it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PRIPOVETKE MILOVANA Dj. GLISICA 1 - stampano 1904. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the rush Ćebo didn't pour it exactly in the mouth, but rather splashed it on his face. In that instant a wisp of some sort of fog escaped from the vampire's mouth, a true butterfly, and flew off somewhere.”
― Milovan Glišić, After Ninety Years

tags: horror, mythology, slavic-peoples, vampire

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