Anica Savić Rebac

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PlacesSerbia
wasWriter Historian
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Female
Birth4 October 1892, Novi Sad, South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia
Death7 October 1953Belgrade, Belgrade City, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (aged 61 years)
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Biography

Anica Savić-Rebac (4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njegoš, Goethe, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thomas Mann, Greek mystical philosophers, Plato, theory of literature. She also translated a number of works from Serbian into English, most notably The Ray of the Microcosm by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.

Anica Savić Rebac appears under the name of Milica in travel book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. In this book she is not only a new friend, but also the intellectual guide who eventually reveals to Rebecca West the rituals which would lead the author to the clue metaphor of her vision of the Balkans.

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