ЛИТЕРАТУРНИТЕ ГЛЕДИШТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / LITERATURE ASPECTS OF ACO ŠOPOV

Abstract

Aco Šopov, one of the young poets who announced the post-war Macedonian poetic
spring. Four decades after his physical death, he is still one of the most read and quoted
Macedonian poets. In addition to his significant poetic oeuvre, his thoughts, attitudes
and ideas about literature, culture and art in general are still relevant today. Examining
his interviews, essays, short writings, the clear vision he had for the development of
Macedonian art within the framework of the then Yugoslav, but also more widely, European
and world art and culture stands out. “Creative Wandering” by Aco Šopov reveals to us
a poet who found his poetics, who deeply and fundamentally penetrated not only into
literature, but through his literary thoughts thoroughly analyzed the entire socio-political
situation that was undoubtedly reflected in every aspect of life, including in literature.
Šopov dealt with the aesthetics of poetry, but also with the messages that the poem brings
and should bring, and with the economic reasons that make it possible or impossible to
publish Macedonian literature. In this paper we will analyze the literary views of the poet
expressed in numerous articles and interviews, but also through his poetry.