Pokoseno polje

<p>Roman <em>Pokoseno polje</em> (1933) najznacajnije je delo Branimira Cosica. Ovo je ujedno i njegovo poslednje napisano delo. Dovrseno je svega pet meseci pre pisceve smrti u sanatorijumu u kome se lecio od tuberkuloze. Roman pripada epohi urbanog modernog realizma medjuratne knjizevnosti i protkan je naglasenom osecajnoscu prema zivotu obespravljenih ljudi tokom i u periodu posle Velikog rata. Sastoji se iz dva dela - u prvom koji je svojevrsna autobiografija pisac kroz lik glavnog junaka prisa o svom ratom unistenom detinjstvu i porodici dok u drugom takodje kroz svojevrsni autobiografski pristup daje sliku drustvenih odnosa i zivota onoga vremena sa snaznim kritickim osvrtom na drustvene nepravde i nemoralnost ondasnjih elita.</p><p></p><p>-----</p><p></p><p><em>Pokoseno polje (The Mown Field)</em> is Branimir Cosic's final-and finest-novel a modern realist portrait of a generation coming of age in the ruins of the Great War. Told with understated lyricism and moral clarity the book follows a young man whose childhood and family are scythed down by history. In one movement the novel gathers the intimate textures of memory-hunger shame a mother's endurance; in another it opens out to a city wrestling with poverty graft and the fragile hope of rebuilding. Cosic writes without spectacle: small scenes carry the weight of an era and compassion sharpens into critique. For readers of Balzac and Remarque alike this is a quietly devastating classic of Serbian interwar literature newly accessible to a global audience.</p>