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Zuko Džumhur

January 01, 1970

Zulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur (24 September 1920 – 27 November 1989)[1] was a prominent Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist.[2] His bohemian nature, versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century.

Zulfikar Džumhur
BornZulfikar Džumhur
(1920-09-24)24 September 1920
Konjic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died27 November 1989(1989-11-27) (aged 69)
Herceg Novi, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
OccupationWriter, painter, and caricaturist
NationalityBosnian
Alma materUniversity of Arts in Belgrade
Period1947–1989
Notable worksNekrolog jednoj čaršiji, Hodoljublja

Biography edit

Džumhur was born in Konjic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).[3] When he was only two months old his father, the ulama Abduselam Džumhur (1885–1933) and mother Vasvija (née Tufo; 1900–1978), moved to the capital of Belgrade, where his father got a job as the main imam of the Royal Yugoslav Army.[4] Zuko Džumhur finished elementary school and the first four grades of high school in Belgrade, then moved to Sarajevo where he finished high school in 1939. Džumhur attended classes at the Law Faculty at the University of Belgrade, but soon left and later finished his studies at the Belgrade Academy of Arts in Petar Dobrović's class. During World War II, Džumhur's younger brother was killed in 1945.

Džumhur published his first caricatures in an army magazine in 1947, and very soon became one of the most prominent illustrators in Yugoslavia, publishing his caricatures in the country's best selling newspapers and magazines, such as Politika,[3] Borba, Oslobođenje, Jež, NIN, Danas and many others. He published over 10,000 illustrations and caricatures, wrote numerous screenplays and worked on the TV show Hodoljublje, which he hosted for over ten years on Sarajevo television.

In Belgrade during the seventies, Džumhur and other artists frequented the bohemian Skadarlija area of the old town. Zuko, along with other artists, was partly responsible for renovating and restoring the Tri šešira (Three Hats) cafe, a popular artist's hangout and a famous landmark in the street.[5]

Džumhur published his first book in 1959, a travelogue entitled Nekrolog jednoj čaršiji (Obituary of a Small Town). Considered his best work, Nekrolog is also particularly exemplary of Džumhur's style of travel writing as a whole. Moving freely, fluidly and often unexpectedly between the familiar and the remote, past and present, real and imagined, Džumhur's travelogues can be characterized by a certain mobility, fragmentariness and easy diversion. In the only preface he ever wrote, Ivo Andrić characterizes the writing in Nekrolog as similar to the illustrations with which Džumhur accompanies his text.

And this line, firm and bare, begins with an unexpected point – running straight and solid, it seems to you it will go on in this direction forever, but somewhere it suddenly stops and unexpectedly pivots somewhere you never thought it would.

This fragmentedness is accompanied, and in some sense given shape by, a distinct focus on the physical world and its objects, and to the lived, material experience of a given place. Džumhur looks for the soul of a city in its objects, its "antiquities, churches, mosques, synagogues, graves of famous people, history in all its forms."[6] In the first chapter of Nekrolog jednoj čaršiji, Džumhur treats the Bosnian town of Počitelj as a living subject, simultaneously recounts its long life as an important military strategic center as well as its humiliating physical deterioration and eventual historical irrelevance. He characterizes this as a death, at one point describing the city as experiencing a "shudder" that passed "through the dilapidated skeletons of old watchtowers and bastions, and blossomed in the guttered cobblestones of its dead alleyways."[7] Grad Zelene Brade, or City of the Green Beard, is a reference to the tree-lined banks of the Neretva, which runs through the heart of the city. Džumhur later refers to the hands of the city's clock-tower as having long ago drowned in its "dark whirlpools...quickly and easily, like two severed hands of time," while at the end of the chapter the city itself is consumed in the "black whirlpools of the swollen Bogomil river - redundant and ridiculous/ in the tattered vests of forgotten old captains - crippled and starving!/...under a quilt of cherry blossoms - dim and dilapidated!/under the dead guards of dead empires..bareheaded, barehanded, barelegged and bare-boned."[8] In the next chapter, Džumhur describes the thriving Juksek-Kaldrma neighborhood in Istanbul, then Edirne, another city left "unpreserved and forgotten."[9] Throughout the book, he describes small villages and urban centers in Bosnia and throughout the Anatolian Peninsula, all with a similar intensity and attention to physical detail, as well as with a focus on his own memories and personal encounters.

In the same way that Džumhur moves fluidly between places, his travel writing is also unique in its focus on the history of every place he visits and writes. Interwoven into his physical descriptions of a city are detailed accounts and stories about its past. The seamlessness with which these historical interludes are incorporated into vivid accounts of the lived experience of a particular place makes present the long-forgotten past, compounding history with the everyday. In Grad Zelene Brade, Džumhur describes, in parentheses, the city's entire history, from Hungarian rule under Matthius Corvinus, through 200 years of Ottoman rule, the Venetian conquer of Gabela and 40 years as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Džumhur's use of historical terminology and references to sometimes obscure past events and figures gives his writing a cultural specificity that makes it very difficult to translate. It has also led to characterizations of Džumhur's writing as anachronistic, or anti-modern, his "measuring of time and space as approximate, populist and old-fashioned, with a particularly cautious approach to modernity and its material and technological progress." This cautiousness, however "reveals itself in an ironic and satirical light...his archaicness is concerned with life and technological innovation and not spiritual, aesthetic or literary modernism."[10] It is perhaps this blend of the conservatism and modernism that allowed Džumhur to be described both as an "old-fashioned Muslim in the mold of Istanbul and Vienna" as well as a figure who in the 1950s helped cultivated Belgrade's distinctly liberal, Bohemian atmosphere.[11]

Džumhur's popular television travel series Hodoljublja, directed by Mirza Idrizović, shares similar movement between familiar national landmarks and remote locales, between forgotten or insignificant towns and cultural-historical centers. As in Nekrolog, there is little difference in the style and intensity with which he engages with and describes the places he visits - Džumhur thus "creates the illusion that the reader or viewer is at home everywhere."[12] An attachment to the everyday in places both close at hand and far away expresses an ordinariness and a tolerance that distinguishes Džumhur from other travel writers, an ordinariness in which the reader can "catch a glimpse of something that might resembles the mimicry of the travel-writing subject, a kind of fusion of this subject with the environment in which it is located."[13] This style also demonstrates Džumhur's particular expression of the relationship between East and West. Instead of positioning himself against the Eastern objects of his travel and description, Džumhur's travelogues describes the East from 'within,' as an experience lived out and lived through, as opposed to a distanced description of the other or a moral, or existential, fact.[14]

Džumhur died in Herceg Novi aged 69 in 1989.

Bibliography edit

  • Nekrolog jednoj čaršiji (1958) (Obituary of a čaršija (the downtown/main street Ottoman-Turkish style bazaar)) (with an introduction by Ivo Andrić)
  • Pisma iz Azije (1973) (Letters from Asia)
  • Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope (Letters from Africa & Europe)
  • Stogodišnje priče (Centennial tales)
  • Putovanje bijelom Ladom (1982) (Voyage with white "Lada")
  • Hodoljublja (1982, "TV Sarajevo" Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Travelogue - a travel documentary with focus on culture, traditions, art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (ex) Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned, primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin.)
  • Adakale
  • Zelena čoja Montenegra (Green carpet of Montenegro - co-authored with Serbian novelist Momo Kapor)

References edit

  1. ^ "Zuko Džumhur". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Na današnji dan rođen je Zuko Džumhur". Metropola. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b Siniša Paunović (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 112.
  4. ^ "Hafiz Abduselam Džumhur (1885-1933)". mojkonjic.com. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  5. ^ A Guide to The Serbian Mentality, Momo Kapor, Dereta, 2008
  6. ^ Hansen-Kokorus, Renate. Perspektiva pješaka u putopisima Zuke Džumhura. Sarajevo: Novi Izraz, 2007. 37-38
  7. ^ Džumhur, Zuko. Nekrolog Jednoj Čaršiji. 2. izd. Beograd: Narodna knjiga, 1982. pg 11
  8. ^ Džumhur, Zuko. Nekrolog Jednoj Čaršiji. 2. izd. Beograd: Narodna knjiga, 1982. pg. 12
  9. ^ Džumhur, Zuko. Nekrolog Jednoj Čaršiji. 2. izd. Beograd: Narodna knjiga, 1982.
  10. ^ Hansen-Kokorus, Renate. Perspektiva pješaka u putopisima Zuke Džumhura. Sarajevo: Novi Izraz, 2007. 37-38
  11. ^ Jergović, Miljenko. Hoda, piše i govori Zuko Džumhur. http://www.jutarnji.hr/hoda--pise-i-govori-zuko-dzumhur/772585/
  12. ^ Jergović, Miljenko. Hoda, piše i govori Zuko Džumhur. http://www.jutarnji.hr/hoda--pise-i-govori-zuko-dzumhur/772585/
  13. ^ Hansen-Kokorus, Renate. Perspektiva pješaka u putopisima Zuke Džumhura. Sarajevo: Novi Izraz, 2007. 37-38
  14. ^ Omeragić, Merima. Imagološko čitanje putopisa Zuke Džumhura i Tvrtka Kulenovića. ODJEK - Journal for Art, Science and Social Issues (4/2010). 73-77

January 01, 1970
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Zulfikar Zuko Dzumhur 24 September 1920 27 November 1989 1 was a prominent Bosnian writer painter and caricaturist 2 His bohemian nature versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century Zulfikar DzumhurBornZulfikar Dzumhur 1920 09 24 24 September 1920Konjic Kingdom of Serbs Croats and SlovenesDied27 November 1989 1989 11 27 aged 69 Herceg Novi SR Montenegro SFR YugoslaviaOccupationWriter painter and caricaturistNationalityBosnianAlma materUniversity of Arts in BelgradePeriod1947 1989Notable worksNekrolog jednoj carsiji HodoljubljaBiography editDzumhur was born in Konjic Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 When he was only two months old his father the ulama Abduselam Dzumhur 1885 1933 and mother Vasvija nee Tufo 1900 1978 moved to the capital of Belgrade where his father got a job as the main imam of the Royal Yugoslav Army 4 Zuko Dzumhur finished elementary school and the first four grades of high school in Belgrade then moved to Sarajevo where he finished high school in 1939 Dzumhur attended classes at the Law Faculty at the University of Belgrade but soon left and later finished his studies at the Belgrade Academy of Arts in Petar Dobrovic s class During World War II Dzumhur s younger brother was killed in 1945 Dzumhur published his first caricatures in an army magazine in 1947 and very soon became one of the most prominent illustrators in Yugoslavia publishing his caricatures in the country s best selling newspapers and magazines such as Politika 3 Borba Oslobođenje Jez NIN Danas and many others He published over 10 000 illustrations and caricatures wrote numerous screenplays and worked on the TV show Hodoljublje which he hosted for over ten years on Sarajevo television In Belgrade during the seventies Dzumhur and other artists frequented the bohemian Skadarlija area of the old town Zuko along with other artists was partly responsible for renovating and restoring the Tri sesira Three Hats cafe a popular artist s hangout and a famous landmark in the street 5 Dzumhur published his first book in 1959 a travelogue entitled Nekrolog jednoj carsiji Obituary of a Small Town Considered his best work Nekrolog is also particularly exemplary of Dzumhur s style of travel writing as a whole Moving freely fluidly and often unexpectedly between the familiar and the remote past and present real and imagined Dzumhur s travelogues can be characterized by a certain mobility fragmentariness and easy diversion In the only preface he ever wrote Ivo Andric characterizes the writing in Nekrolog as similar to the illustrations with which Dzumhur accompanies his text And this line firm and bare begins with an unexpected point running straight and solid it seems to you it will go on in this direction forever but somewhere it suddenly stops and unexpectedly pivots somewhere you never thought it would This fragmentedness is accompanied and in some sense given shape by a distinct focus on the physical world and its objects and to the lived material experience of a given place Dzumhur looks for the soul of a city in its objects its antiquities churches mosques synagogues graves of famous people history in all its forms 6 In the first chapter of Nekrolog jednoj carsiji Dzumhur treats the Bosnian town of Pocitelj as a living subject simultaneously recounts its long life as an important military strategic center as well as its humiliating physical deterioration and eventual historical irrelevance He characterizes this as a death at one point describing the city as experiencing a shudder that passed through the dilapidated skeletons of old watchtowers and bastions and blossomed in the guttered cobblestones of its dead alleyways 7 Grad Zelene Brade or City of the Green Beard is a reference to the tree lined banks of the Neretva which runs through the heart of the city Dzumhur later refers to the hands of the city s clock tower as having long ago drowned in its dark whirlpools quickly and easily like two severed hands of time while at the end of the chapter the city itself is consumed in the black whirlpools of the swollen Bogomil river redundant and ridiculous in the tattered vests of forgotten old captains crippled and starving under a quilt of cherry blossoms dim and dilapidated under the dead guards of dead empires bareheaded barehanded barelegged and bare boned 8 In the next chapter Dzumhur describes the thriving Juksek Kaldrma neighborhood in Istanbul then Edirne another city left unpreserved and forgotten 9 Throughout the book he describes small villages and urban centers in Bosnia and throughout the Anatolian Peninsula all with a similar intensity and attention to physical detail as well as with a focus on his own memories and personal encounters In the same way that Dzumhur moves fluidly between places his travel writing is also unique in its focus on the history of every place he visits and writes Interwoven into his physical descriptions of a city are detailed accounts and stories about its past The seamlessness with which these historical interludes are incorporated into vivid accounts of the lived experience of a particular place makes present the long forgotten past compounding history with the everyday In Grad Zelene Brade Dzumhur describes in parentheses the city s entire history from Hungarian rule under Matthius Corvinus through 200 years of Ottoman rule the Venetian conquer of Gabela and 40 years as part of the Austro Hungarian empire Dzumhur s use of historical terminology and references to sometimes obscure past events and figures gives his writing a cultural specificity that makes it very difficult to translate It has also led to characterizations of Dzumhur s writing as anachronistic or anti modern his measuring of time and space as approximate populist and old fashioned with a particularly cautious approach to modernity and its material and technological progress This cautiousness however reveals itself in an ironic and satirical light his archaicness is concerned with life and technological innovation and not spiritual aesthetic or literary modernism 10 It is perhaps this blend of the conservatism and modernism that allowed Dzumhur to be described both as an old fashioned Muslim in the mold of Istanbul and Vienna as well as a figure who in the 1950s helped cultivated Belgrade s distinctly liberal Bohemian atmosphere 11 Dzumhur s popular television travel series Hodoljublja directed by Mirza Idrizovic shares similar movement between familiar national landmarks and remote locales between forgotten or insignificant towns and cultural historical centers As in Nekrolog there is little difference in the style and intensity with which he engages with and describes the places he visits Dzumhur thus creates the illusion that the reader or viewer is at home everywhere 12 An attachment to the everyday in places both close at hand and far away expresses an ordinariness and a tolerance that distinguishes Dzumhur from other travel writers an ordinariness in which the reader can catch a glimpse of something that might resembles the mimicry of the travel writing subject a kind of fusion of this subject with the environment in which it is located 13 This style also demonstrates Dzumhur s particular expression of the relationship between East and West Instead of positioning himself against the Eastern objects of his travel and description Dzumhur s travelogues describes the East from within as an experience lived out and lived through as opposed to a distanced description of the other or a moral or existential fact 14 Dzumhur died in Herceg Novi aged 69 in 1989 Bibliography editNekrolog jednoj carsiji 1958 Obituary of a carsija the downtown main street Ottoman Turkish style bazaar with an introduction by Ivo Andric Pisma iz Azije 1973 Letters from Asia Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope Letters from Africa amp Europe Stogodisnje price Centennial tales Putovanje bijelom Ladom 1982 Voyage with white Lada Hodoljublja 1982 TV Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Travelogue a travel documentary with focus on culture traditions art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina ex Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin Adakale Zelena coja Montenegra Green carpet of Montenegro co authored with Serbian novelist Momo Kapor References edit Zuko Dzumhur data bnf fr in French Bibliotheque nationale de France Retrieved 27 April 2023 Na danasnji dan rođen je Zuko Dzumhur Metropola 24 September 2013 Retrieved 14 February 2014 a b Sinisa Paunovic 1971 Zivan Milisavac ed Jugoslovenski knjizevni leksikon Yugoslav Literary Lexicon in Serbo Croatian Novi Sad SAP Vojvodina SR Serbia Matica srpska p 112 Hafiz Abduselam Dzumhur 1885 1933 mojkonjic com 27 September 2015 Retrieved 16 December 2015 A Guide to The Serbian Mentality Momo Kapor Dereta 2008 Hansen Kokorus Renate Perspektiva pjesaka u putopisima Zuke Dzumhura Sarajevo Novi Izraz 2007 37 38 Dzumhur Zuko Nekrolog Jednoj Carsiji 2 izd Beograd Narodna knjiga 1982 pg 11 Dzumhur Zuko Nekrolog Jednoj Carsiji 2 izd Beograd Narodna knjiga 1982 pg 12 Dzumhur Zuko Nekrolog Jednoj Carsiji 2 izd Beograd Narodna knjiga 1982 Hansen Kokorus Renate Perspektiva pjesaka u putopisima Zuke Dzumhura Sarajevo Novi Izraz 2007 37 38 Jergovic Miljenko Hoda pise i govori Zuko Dzumhur http www jutarnji hr hoda pise i govori zuko dzumhur 772585 Jergovic Miljenko Hoda pise i govori Zuko Dzumhur http www jutarnji hr hoda pise i govori zuko dzumhur 772585 Hansen Kokorus Renate Perspektiva pjesaka u putopisima Zuke Dzumhura Sarajevo Novi Izraz 2007 37 38 Omeragic Merima Imagolosko citanje putopisa Zuke Dzumhura i Tvrtka Kulenovica ODJEK Journal for Art Science and Social Issues 4 2010 73 77 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Zuko Dzumhur amp oldid 1208333829, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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