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Places | Serbia | |
was | Writer Historian | |
Work field | Literature Social science | |
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Birth | 4 October 1892, Novi Sad, South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia | |
Death | 7 October 1953Belgrade, Belgrade City, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (aged 61 years) |
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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.