Miodrag Bulatovic

Yugoslav literature would not be completed without Miodrag Bulatovic, a very controversial figure, his genius brought him acknowledgement, and made him to create books one of its kind.

In novel “Red cock flies to heaven” – the aspect of evil in itself is bound with the aspect of the woman who is a cause of all evil. She is a root of all evil. The evil is omnipresent, it has its character, focuses on domination and submission of the weaker counterpart. 

Therefore is so destructive, almost palatable. The evil is also having a desire to overwhelm a woman, a woman who is admired, loved, yet, very passive and outstandingly symbolic.

Bulatvic's writing is metaphorical, he writes metaphors and by means of which describes behavioral aspects of human mind, human basic, animal instincts. The woman so desired is an object, is presented as whore who has to fill men's needs. Bulatovic doesn't write about woman as a lady, but about a woman as a prostitute, weak, poor object, often being laughed out of. Perversion triggers the plot, more sophisticated it is, more poor woman unfortunate becomes. 

Bulatovic categorizes the evil, its existential surface to achieve the balance between evil and good, between reason and passion, and finally between the man and the animal. Humans do evil there is a cause ans effect, a crime and a punishment. The punishment is in all Bulatovic works a redemption, this redemption can not be filled because it is condemned, rooted in Hell.

The personification of evil has its tradition in - Jude- christian origins, the Evil is having a real shape, a real image, it influenced the man, made judges and if necessary destroyed man. Its founder was Zarathustra. The Evil is an indispensable part of human kind and human creation, as much a woman, Eve. The serpent tempted Eve to feed Adam with a poisoned apple. Eve and Serpent represent two faces of the same Evil.

In Bulatovic's writing the reader faces lots is stereotypes, myths and tales portraying women, he personifies woman, presents her as a mother, as a flesh and blood, as Eve, and as a goddess. Bulatovic liked presenting women in a mythological aspect as “woman as a mother”;  as a “womb”; therefore he restores to Fredrick Nietzsche, who sees women as never—changing puzzle, as Venus. Bulatovic's woman is fertile, she has got full breast, tights, she is healthy in shapes, which gives the man a signal; “She will give a birth to my children, a perfect mother”.

The image of a woman as a prostitute is much more vivid in Bulatovic's works. His muse is submitted and obedient to the man, without dominant features of character, the naked woman is passive, during the intercourse woman does not participate, she is like a doll.