TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
tuberculosis and sent to Vienna to convalesce in 1915.
In the autumn of the followine ~ear
he was assiened to
non-militar~ duties on the railw~s at Seeedin, and then
posted to a school for reserve officers in 1917.
After
the war, followine the formation of the Kinedom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later to be called
Yueoslavia, Crnjanski went first to Zaereb, and then to
Belerade.
Crnjanski published two poems as a ~oune
man in the
period before the war.
appeared in the ~outh
The first was "Sudba" which
journal Golub in 1908 (19), and
the second was "U poaetku beie sjaj" which was published
in the journal Bosanska vila in 1912 (20).
He claims
that the second poem was just one of a number which he
sent to the journal.
He also notes that he sent a pl~,
Prokleti knjaz, to the Narodno pozoriite and a novel
to the journal Brankovo kolo (21).
These others were
not Published and he did not keep an~
copies of his
manuscripts.
He found his first success with his poems
of 1917 published b~
Julije Beneii6, editor of the
Croatian journal Savremenik (22).
censor in Zaereb was particularl~
At that time the
sensitive to an~
anti-war sentiments, and Bene.i6 made some slieht
alterations to Crnjanski's manuscripts, such as chaneine
the title of one poem from "Oda veialima" to simpl~
"Oda ft • These poems of 1917 and 1918 formed the basis
for his later collection Lirika Itake (23).
It was
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