Zelena čoja Montenegra

by Momo Kapor

Serbo-Croation

Genres: Serbian Literature

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Momčilo "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.

Reviews

[Milica Stojiljkovic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Moj standardni utisak o Kaporu je trojka, pa tako i sad.

[Srdjan Vidovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meni najdraza od svih Kaporovih.

[Milena Meja · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jedno drugo lice Knjaza i Kralja Nikole, za koje nisam znala. Ma koliko ga istorija vajala kao znamenika i pravednika, u mojim očima poslije odstupa, i plovljenja pored tijela nastradalih kod Meduna, ga ne čini pomenikom uopšte. Ovdje je predstavljen kao čovjek svjetskog kalibra, sa manirima, sa čojstvenim pristupom prema zatočeniku, sa magijom čoje koja i se i dan danas zeleni Crnom Gorom. Maestralnim likovima nedostaje ona zera dubine ličnosti. A opet na ovoliko malo stranica ovako veliki boj, svijet, nafaka...odlično su pasali, nekako taman.

[Mother · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trebalo je da napišu da je i Zuko Džumhur radio na knjizi.

[kikoslav · Rating 5 out of 5]

... sve je to mirisalo na jednu malu, slobodnu prestonicu, Bogu iza leđa

Nikad nisam bolje osjećala Brkovića i njegovu Babilonsku:
"sve teže je napisati pismo, izgubljena je nepovratno jasnoća riječi..." pa i poslije neumornog vraćanja ovom djelu ne znam tu ljubav prenijeti u riječi. A ne mogu biti ni toliko subjektivna i reći da je najbolje djelo ikad, ali miriše na dom i slobodu, na svu (ne)sreću ljudskog roda zarobljenu u kršu. U stranicama čuva čestice prašnjavih sjećanja iz tako bremenitog vremena i stoji kao dokaz da je život samo beskrajna mreža u vremenu i prostoru i da se i najsitniji talasi prenose vjekovima i generacijama. Na neki veoma čudan način me je pronašla, ispresjecana fragmentima knjiga koje sam čitala, priča koje sam oduvijek slušala i znala kao što se zna sopstveno ime. Možda je zato, kao što je i Zogovićeva maslina ribaru što žar razgrće rukama i ona meni - svoja.
I možda sam u njoj našla riječi kojima vjerujem.

[Jovana Boskovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Postoje te neke knjige koje te citavog zivota prate u razgovorima, spiskovima, preporukama, i nekako uvijek kazes da ces ih procitati a taj dan nikako da dodje. E pa za Zelenu coju Montenegra je dosao i tesko da se moze rijecima opisati osjecaj citanja ovog romana.
Postoji nesto iskonsko u svakoj recenici, nesto nase, narodno, sto cetinjske razgovore i dan danas krasi. Odzvanjaju ovi krsi i danas tadasnjim cojstvom i hrabroscu, a vazduh je i dalje pun ljudske pomirljivosti i ranjivosti.
Kapor mi ranije nije legao, ali ovom cojom se duboko urezao i tu ce ostati.

[Hana Kazazovic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uzela sam je čitati zbog toga što me zanimalo Momino prijateljevanje sa Zukom i to kako on piše o njemu. I to mi i jeste najjači dio knjige, onaj kojem ću se vratiti sigurno.
Ali je i sve ostalo odlično i zanimljivo i baš sam uživala.

[Vera Jelovac · Rating 5 out of 5]

Само могу да кажем – жао ми је што раније нисам чула за ову књигу.

[Lazar Šćekić · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fenomenalna priča o prijateljstvu Kralja Nikole i Osman-paše Sarhoša, Moma Kapora i Zuka Džumhura i jednom vremenu koje je sad samo dio crnogorske i jugoslovenske istorije.

Iz tog vremena je preživio samo vic koji Cetinjani i danas pričaju:

"Pita jedan jednoga na Cetinje, kad ide vapor za Kotor, a ovi mu reče, oko podne ako bude vode!"

[Jovana Delic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vrlo sam prijatno izenadjena time koliko mi je prica bila zanimljiva i dubinom likova. Falilo mi je malo jasnije definisanog sukoba. Ali znajuci o kakvim temama inace citam i da je ovo nesto potpuno drugacije, knjiga je oborila sva moja ocekivanja.

[Jelena Antic · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bzv

[David Kastratović · Rating 5 out of 5]

osman-paša davidenković

[Tamara Komnenović · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my cup of tea honestly

[Arsenovic Nikola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Momo Kapor vrhunski pripovedac. Knjiga koja ima jako puno pararelnih prica. Uživanje