TO THE MONTENEGRIN LITERATURE – A BOOK OF DEEP DEVOTION (Milorad Nikčević, Montenegrin Literature from 1852 to 1918, the Institute for Montenegrin Language and Literature, Podgorica, 2012)

The author provides a review of the third volume of the History of the Montenegrin Literature entitled Montenegrin Literature from 1852 to 1918. In this volume, Milorad Nikčević encompassed the period from the fifties of the XX century to the World War I. A number of Montenegrin poets, narrators, and writers of travelogues and memoirs appeared at the time, while the drama literature and literary criticism were gradually developed. In the History, the main distinction criterion of analyzed literary-artistic structure is based on literary genres: poetry, prose, drama, etc. This is why the paper provides an overview of Nikčević’s conclusions on typological particularities of literary works within the categories of the Montenegrin literature of Romanticism, Realism and Modernism. A synthesis on the Montenegrin drama, authored by Aleksandar Radoman, is particularly emphasized.