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Poslednji let za Sarajevo
Svaka knjiga o Sarajevu (a nije ih mali broj) dobro je dosla, ako ni zbog cega drugog, a ono kao svedocanstvo u vremenu zla o tome da su u ovom gradu nekada ziveli i Srbi i da su bili so njegove soli, najbolji i najplemenitiji deo njegovog duha. Taj grad im je otet, ali svako od Sarajlija, ma kuda ga vetrovi rata odneli, nosi u sebi jedan njegov delic, bas kao i ova skromna knjiga o ljubavi i mrznji."
220 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Momo Kapor
123 books271 followersMomčilo "Momo" Kapor was a Serbian novelist, painter, and short story writer. Several successful films have been based upon his novels.
Born in Sarajevo in 1937. He graduated the painting in 1961 at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovic. He has published many titles, novels and collections of stories. He has a large number of documentary films and television shows, all according to his screenplays, as well as several feature films (Almonds Beyond Death, Banquet (film), Walter Defends Sarajevo, Jolly DJ, End the Weekend). Una and The Book of Complaints were adapted as such. They have been translated into French, German, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Swedish.
Dobrica Cosic, in his book "Friends," on pages 276 and 277 describes the childhood and youth of Momo Kapor, based on the talks he had with him in November 2002. "On the 13 of April 1941, The Germans bombed Sarajevo and hit the building below Trebenica in which the Kapor's mother had hid with her 4-year old son. In the collapsed house, everybody was dead. Moma's mother saved her son with her own body. The boy somehow pulled out from the rubble, moaned and fell into scilence from the speechless horror of not knowing where to be. He was found by a Russian, an emigrant, a doctor, who took pity on him and took him to his apartment, adopting him, as he had no children. He nurtured him, loved him, filled him with toys to forget his mother and drove him around Sarajevo in a white Mercedes. The boy knew that his name was Momcilo, but not his surname. The good Russian gave him a good name, Momcilo Hercegovac. After a year of life with the good man, Momcilo Hercegovac fell ill with scarlet fever, so his savior took him to the Sarajevo hospital. There he was found by his maternal aunt for she had been looking for him the previous year all round Sarajevo, being informed by someone earlier on that there was "a child that got out of the destroyed house, where a man took him with him." When the boy recuperated from scarlet fever, his grandmother took him to her house and took care of him. Momcilo Hercegovac was cared for by the Russian as well, who joined vlasovcima-collaborators of the Germans, often visiting him with gifts. His father was, upon returning from captivity and being a banking expert, set up in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade. However, his patriotic conscience and responsibilities led to the passage of a whole year after the war before he came to Sarajevo to see his son. He treated his son in a strict patriarchal manner and was dissatisfied that his son dedicated himself to painting and literature, a life of social and material uncertainty "
He died in Belgrade on the 3. of March 2010. at the Military Medical Academy.
Born in Sarajevo in 1937. He graduated the painting in 1961 at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovic. He has published many titles, novels and collections of stories. He has a large number of documentary films and television shows, all according to his screenplays, as well as several feature films (Almonds Beyond Death, Banquet (film), Walter Defends Sarajevo, Jolly DJ, End the Weekend). Una and The Book of Complaints were adapted as such. They have been translated into French, German, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Swedish.
Dobrica Cosic, in his book "Friends," on pages 276 and 277 describes the childhood and youth of Momo Kapor, based on the talks he had with him in November 2002. "On the 13 of April 1941, The Germans bombed Sarajevo and hit the building below Trebenica in which the Kapor's mother had hid with her 4-year old son. In the collapsed house, everybody was dead. Moma's mother saved her son with her own body. The boy somehow pulled out from the rubble, moaned and fell into scilence from the speechless horror of not knowing where to be. He was found by a Russian, an emigrant, a doctor, who took pity on him and took him to his apartment, adopting him, as he had no children. He nurtured him, loved him, filled him with toys to forget his mother and drove him around Sarajevo in a white Mercedes. The boy knew that his name was Momcilo, but not his surname. The good Russian gave him a good name, Momcilo Hercegovac. After a year of life with the good man, Momcilo Hercegovac fell ill with scarlet fever, so his savior took him to the Sarajevo hospital. There he was found by his maternal aunt for she had been looking for him the previous year all round Sarajevo, being informed by someone earlier on that there was "a child that got out of the destroyed house, where a man took him with him." When the boy recuperated from scarlet fever, his grandmother took him to her house and took care of him. Momcilo Hercegovac was cared for by the Russian as well, who joined vlasovcima-collaborators of the Germans, often visiting him with gifts. His father was, upon returning from captivity and being a banking expert, set up in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade. However, his patriotic conscience and responsibilities led to the passage of a whole year after the war before he came to Sarajevo to see his son. He treated his son in a strict patriarchal manner and was dissatisfied that his son dedicated himself to painting and literature, a life of social and material uncertainty "
He died in Belgrade on the 3. of March 2010. at the Military Medical Academy.
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November 4, 2022
Život i svet mogu biti lepi čak i zaodenuti u tugu. Susret sa lepotama ovog svetom mora biti i patnja, jer svet je okrnjen i uzdiše dok čeka neki novi svet...
February 21, 2022
Kraj je logičan, ali ne i očekivan.
Upozorenja za razmatranje: elektrin kompleks i priča o samoubistvu
Uzela sam babinu polu raspadnutu knjigu i samim tim iskustvo čitanja je bilo posebno.
Rasplakao me je deo sa Zvezdanom, Sarajevo je stvarno magično.
(Kapor u knjigama dodaje puno (ne)potrebnih anegdota koje njegovim delima daju šarm.)
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Upozorenja za razmatranje: elektrin kompleks i priča o samoubistvu
Uzela sam babinu polu raspadnutu knjigu i samim tim iskustvo čitanja je bilo posebno.
Rasplakao me je deo sa Zvezdanom, Sarajevo je stvarno magično.
(Kapor u knjigama dodaje puno (ne)potrebnih anegdota koje njegovim delima daju šarm.)
Citala u februaru 2022 ↓
13 . 25
14 . 25
15 . 23
16 . 37
17 . 30
19 . 8
20. 46
21. 19
March 18, 2021
Žestoko mučenje, jedva sam proveo kraju. Definitivno Momo nije za mene.
September 23, 2021
Lep let oko sveta iz Sarajeva
January 10, 2024
Iako obožavam Momu, opet se nekako ovde nismo
"pronašli" . Dosta razvučeno i stereotipno i nekako
nasilno sentimentalno.
"pronašli" . Dosta razvučeno i stereotipno i nekako
nasilno sentimentalno.
May 11, 2024
Znam da Kapor nije moja soljica caja. Ali i dalje nekako procitam u dva dana njegove knjige, a atmosfera me vrati u Jugoslaviju, prepuna stare muzike, kulture, knjizevnosti. Sami zapleti i likovi su u svakoj knjizi identicni, kao da citam jednu te istu. Ipak, ne mogu da kazem da je knjiga bila losa, ali ni da je bila mnogo dobra. Okej je pravi komentar.
October 28, 2025
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