According to Svetislav Basara, after the death of Philip David, a great void remained, which will be partially filled by David's works.
A writer Philip David pointed out in one of his last media addresses that his dominant feeling was incompleteness, while in fact he was a complete and complete personality who always stood for good and justice, it was said on commemoration of the death of David.
Writer and columnist Svetislav Basara pointed out that exactly what David said in his address is a characteristic of people who are rich in spiritual gifts in an "unfinished and fallen world".
"However, I have not met such a complete and complete, and within the limits of human possibilities, such a perfect personality," said Basara.
He stated that until his last breath, David was a gentle man who was determined and infinitely brave, adding that he had understanding for those who brought him great harm during his life.
Establish an award that will bear the name of Philip David
At the commemoration, Basara initiated the initiative to establish an award named after Filip David together with the Jewish community in Belgrade.
According to him, after the death of Philip David, a great void remained, which will be partially filled by David's works.
"I will miss his wisdom, his gentleness and his humor. Serbian culture has lost much more than it can even comprehend," added Basara.
Politician and psychologist Žarko Korać spoke about David's political advocacy and explained that even in that aspect of David's life, his kindness "kept" the people around him.
Photo: FoNet / Milica VučkovićCommemoration of Filip David
Korać emphasized that David refused to accept the award in front of the then President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, because he considered it unacceptable, adding that by that act, David taught politicians and society a lesson.
He emphasized that this is one of the proofs of David's consistency with himself, and he was also a true humanist who was really against war and crime with his whole being.
Director Lordan Zafranović said that David dedicated his life to the dangers of nationalism and that he was extremely dedicated to spirituality and justice precisely so that he could overcome the horrors of nationalism.
Biography
Writer, playwright and screenwriter Filip David died on April 14 at the age of 86.
Filip David was born in Kragujevac in 1940. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology and the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and TV.
He was a writer, essayist, dramatist, long-time editor of the drama program of Television Belgrade and professor of dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
He is one of the founders of Independent Writers, an association founded in 1989 in Sarajevo, which gathered the most important authors from all parts of the former Yugoslavia, then the founder of the Belgrade Circle (1990), the Forum of Writers and a member of the international literary association "Group 99", founded at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt.
He wrote several television dramas and film scripts.
He published books of short stories "The Well in the Dark Forest", "Records of the Real and the Unreal" and "The Prince of Fire", the novels "Pilgrims of Heaven and Earth", "Dream of Love and Death" and "The House of Memory and Forgetting", books of essays "Fragments from Dark Times", "Are We Monsters", "Worlds in Chaos".
Together with Mirko Kovač, he published the "Book of Letters" in 1992-1995.
He is the winner of many awards for prose, among others the "Mladost" award, the "Milan Rakić" award, the BIGZ and Prosveta awards for the best book of the year, the NIN and Andrić awards.
His novels have been translated into several languages, and his short stories are included in twenty anthologies.
As a dramatist and screenwriter, he worked on the films: "Occupation in 26 Pictures", "The Fall of Italy", "Who's Singing There", "Powder Kegs", "Special Treatment", "Pavilion 6", "Winter Night's Dream", "Optimists".
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