Monument to the poet Miklos Radnoti in Bor



Began preparations for marking the 100 years since the birth of the poet



on the banks of Lake Bor 1979th The set is a monument Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti, which is end of 1944. The inmate worked in the Bor mine.

ovekovečio The room is in the collection of verse published Borska notebooks .



in the last days of life Radnoti wrote songs filled tragikom human existence:



over us frkće abominations death ,

were rotten dead zavidele live shadow ,

until their poison on the table glass penny ...



Before, forced march, with the other detainees, from Bora went to Hungary, November 1944th year, in the header of the Notebooks, in several languages, including Serbo-Croatian, wrote:

The notes contain verses of Hungarian poet Miklós Radnoti. He prays that the finder sends the text to address university professors ...



the address and the professors were partially removed, and some pages Borska notebook .



But the message was found in Radnotijevom rear pocket, two years later, when his body was exhumed. It was proof that the poet Radnoti arrived only to Abde, where he was 8th November 1944th Ubli Hungarian soldiers. But that has not lost hope that the best evidence yet to return from verses songs Written woman



who hovers in the light powder.

Appears and disappears for a moment ...

and jealously kušam ... you love me, do not ...

guess the depth of the desolation outline, deaf ,

kriknem, because silence screams in my ear,

but the answer to it is not

from the war smamljene Serbia,

while you're away ...



so in 1979. The published evidence of the permanent severe penal life in Bor during the Second World War. So are his Boran and repaid a magnificent monument, the work of the Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga. The monument was placed near the place where he was a barracks, the lake shores.



Until the 30th September 2001. year it was our meeting place of poets and the Balkans, who came to worship senima tragedian poet, when compared with Ivan Goran Kovacic.



However, hunters copper resources in the monument weighs 480 kilograama stolen and turned into the old copper. So the first and only monument to a foreign poet in this part of Serbia with the Bor lakes disappeared and went to a private foundry.



On the initiative of Bora poet and translator Stefan Molnar, a monument was re-cast and placed in front of the Health in Bor.

New, old, now a monument weighs 440 pounds and cost 40,000 euros.



This is a Hungarian poet, now, Miklos Radnoti bronze for the third time, but permanently, came to the city of copper. And almost no foreign delegation, particularly Hungary, which does not visit and lay flowers at the monument Radnoti.



Next year, Hungary will be marked 100th anniversary of the birth of this great poet. On that occasion, in Bor will be published the first collection of poems Miklós Radnotija pagan greeting .

during the negotiations with copyright holders in Hungary. Miklós wife Fanny, to which he devoted several anthological songs, died in 99th year.