Dušan Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Матић; 31 August 1898 – 12 September 1980) was a Serbian poet who was active as part of the Belgrade surrealist group. Biography Early life Dušan Matić was born on 31 August 1898 in Ćuprija. His father was a civil servant from Jagodina, and his mother was from Kruševac. Due to his father's occupation, the Matić family moved frequently, spending time in Pirot, Čačak, Niš and Šabac. Just as he had started attending school in Šabac in 1912, the First Balkan War erupted. His family home was destroyed in the early days of World War I, after which the Matić family moved to Kruševac to stay with the family of Dušan's mother. At the age of 16, Matić published his first poetry in the Serbian Social Democratic Party aligned Radničke novine (The Workers' Journal) under the nom de plume Uroš Jovanović. In 1915, Matić followed his father in the Great Retreat, eventually departing from Durrës. Moving from Messina to Marseille, followed by Grenoble, Matić eventually continued his education in Nice, where he graduated from high school in July 1917. Education In October 1917, Matić enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied philosophy. There, he met and befriended Rastko Petrović, with whom he would attend meetings hosted by French avant-garde writers of the era. In 1919, Matić befriended Miloš Crnjanski, who was in Paris as an exchange student. From 1919 to 1921, Matić attended early psychology lectures by professor Georges Dumas. Matić was the first of the Belgrade surrealist group to read André Breton's Les Champs magnétiques, which he brought to Belgrade during summer break in 1920. At this time, he collaborated with Ljubomir Micić, who published Matić's essay Bergson o predviđanju i novom (Bergson on Prediction and the New) in the May issue of Zenit (Zenith). Matić discontinued his studies in March 1921 due to illness. In 1922, he moved from Paris to Belgrade, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy on 6 March 1922. In August 1922, Matić arrived in Dresden where he studied German Romanticist philosophy. During this time, he was critical toward the Belgrade-based avant-garde magazine Putevi (Roads). He elaborated on his criticism in a letter to Marko Ristić, which caused a rift between the two. Surrealism Matić started publishing his poetry in Putevi in October 1923. He also wrote on Freud's psychoanalysis. Matić's most influential essay published in