Milutin Uskoković ( sr-Cyrl, Милутин Ускоковић; 4 June 1884 – 15 October 1915) was a

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Biography

Milutin Uskoković was born at

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, Serbia, on 4 June 1884 and killed himself at

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in southern

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on 15 October 1915 while witnessing the tragic retreat of the

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. His suicide note read: "I can no longer endure the destruction of my fatherland!" He graduated from

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's Law School with a

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degree in 1910. Like Veljko Miličević, Uskoković mixed fiction with journalism. He served as a war correspondent embedded with the Serbian army in the Balkans Wars and in World War I. To both journalism and fiction he brought an unusually rich and varied preparation. As a novelist and short-story writer, Uskoković came to hold definite theories of the purpose and value of fiction, which he set forth in the essays collected after his death. He wrote, "Crtice" (1901) and poems in prose "Pod životom" (1905) and "Vitae freagmenta" (1908). His short stories "Kad ruže cvetaju" (1911) first appeared in magazines. Then two novels came, "Čedomir Ilić," published in 1914, and "Došljaci," published posthumously in 1919.

Works

* ''Pod životom'' : crtice, pesme u prozi, pesme, članci o književnosti, 1905 * ''Vitae fragmenta'', 1908 * ''Došljaci'' (Settlers), his first novel, 1910 * ''Kad ruže cvetaju'', 1912 * ''Les traites d Union douaniere en droit international'', 1910 * ''Čedomir Ilić'', his second novel, 1914 * ''Dela'', 1932 * ''Usput'', 1978

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Jovan Skerlić Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as o ...

, ''Istorija nove srpske književnosti'' (Belgrade, 1914/1921) page 466 {{DEFAULTSORT:Uskokovic, Milutin 1884 births 1915 deaths Writers from Užice People from the Kingdom of Serbia University of Geneva alumni War correspondents of the Balkan Wars 1915 suicides Suicides by drowning Suicides in Serbia