On October 27, the writer and philosopher Radomir Konstantinović, best known for his capital work "Philosophy of the palanquin", died in Belgrade at the age of 83.
Konstantinović was born on March 27, 1928 in Subotica, and began his career as a poet, with a collection of poems "House without a roof" (1951), before devoting himself to a novel and publishing a whole series of experimental projects and modern works: "Give us today " (1954), "The Mousetrap" (1956), "Clean and Dirty" (1958), "The Exit" (NIN Award in 1960) and "Ahasfers or Treatise on the Beer Bottle" (1964).
From "Pentagram" (1966), he turns to the essay, and already in it the key parts of the cult Philosophija palanka (1969) can be seen, in which this poet and philosopher, creating a unique essayistic amalgam, uncompromisingly cut through the dust of provincial consciousness, entrenched petty bourgeoisie and rigid traditionalism.
Using a series of examples, showing how almost everything is palanquin to us, Konstantinović analyzes style as the highest principle of palanquin, the ideal of pure poverty, sentimentalism and sarcasm, atheism, permanent infantilism, realism, banality, nihilism of the dark vilayet, existence as meaningless work, laziness as the work of a closed world palanquins, political fair, ideal of organic culture, Serbian Nazism, etc.
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