{"id":103877,"date":"2024-08-16T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/library\/books-in-macedonian\/%d1%98%d1%83%d1%81-%d1%83%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b7%d1%83%d0%bc-1968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:42:30","slug":"the-yuniverse-1968","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/library\/books-in-macedonian\/the-yuniverse-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"The YUniverse, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tAco \u0160opov: <em>The YUniverse<\/em>, Skopje, 1968\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1968-Yus-Univerzum-WEB-Lirika.jpg\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1968-Jus-univerzum-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\u0410\u0446\u043e \u0428\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0432: \u0408\u0443\u0441-\u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0437\u0443\u043c, 1968\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"368\" width=\"656\" title=\"1968-Jus-univerzum-Cover\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u0410\u0446\u043e \u0428\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0432: <em>\u0408\u0443\u0441-\u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0437\u0443\u043c<\/em>, 1968\n\tThe first collection of satirical poetry in Macedonia, published in 1968, was written by Aco \u0160opov. Its title, The YUniverse (literally Yus Universum), set the tone:<br \/>\n\u0160opov parodied the society through the YUS standard, the equivalent of ISO on a national scale in Yugoslavia. &#8220;YUS has<br \/>\nbecome our second nature,&#8221; he said in an interview (1967). &#8220;We live, eat, judge, sleep, act and love according to the YUS&#8221;.<br \/>\nAnd the poet went on to comb through the yus-poets, yus-novelists, yus-critics, yus-competitors and various other yuspoliticians, well aware that &#8220;satire is a dangerous zone, a slippery slope that disrupts the peaceful order of things.&#8221;\n<p>The\u00a0 books contents 22 poems. They are not translated into English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d1%87%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%86%d0%b0\/%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b0\/%d1%98%d1%83%d1%81-%d1%83%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b7%d1%83%d0%bc-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccess to the content of the book (in Macedoian)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/%D0%90%D1%86%D0%BE-%D0%A8%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%88%D1%83%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BC-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8.pdf\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccess to the manuscripts (in Macedoian0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/library\/books-in-macedonian\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to the original \u0160opov&#8217;s books\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aco \u0160opov: The YUniverse, Skopje, 1968 \u0410\u0446\u043e \u0428\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0432: \u0408\u0443\u0441-\u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0437\u0443\u043c, 1968 The first collection of satirical poetry in Macedonia, published in 1968, was written by Aco \u0160opov. Its title, The YUniverse (literally Yus Universum), set the tone: \u0160opov parodied the society through the YUS standard, the equivalent of ISO on a national scale in Yugoslavia. &#8220;YUS&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":101971,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103883,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103877\/revisions\/103883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}