TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER THREE
THE EARLY NOVELS:
TIME, LANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
Dnevnik 0
~arnojevi6u
From the appearance of Dnevnik 0
~arnojevi6u
Crnjanski's use of lan~ua~e aroused controvers~. Some,
who had little s~mpath~
for the aesthetics and aims of
the post-war modernists, considered his stvle confused.
Others recognised in his style somethin~
unique which
linked modern Serbian literature to contemporary
European trends.
svetovski commented on Crnjanski's
first novel:
Ovo je lirika sarna. Sentimentalna muzika
puna podse6anja; ne~to ~to nali~i na onu
Debisijevu simfoniju §to po~inje sa ~
matin d'un jour de fete (1).
It is a l~ric itself. Sentimental music
full of reminiscence; something which
resembles the symphony b~ Debuss~ which
begins with le matin d'un jour de fete.
Another critic wrote:
Svojim li~nim tonom, koji odaje vi~e
pesnika no romansijera, ova velika pri~a
bez do~a4aja potse6a mnogo puta na
psetljivog, kapriznog Hamsuna (2).
By its l~rical tone, which betravs more a
poet than a novelist, this great stor~
without any events reminds one many times
of the sensitive, capricious Hamsun.
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