TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
his connection with Beneii6 which took him to Zasreb in
1918, where Beneii6 introduced him to the literary
circles of the city. He met the editors of the ~ournal
Kn#i!evni #us, and in particular Ivo Andri6.
The
~ournal
had besun publication in January 1918 as a
pro-YuSoslav orsan, intent on promotins the union of the
South Slavs in one state.
The cultural life of Belsrade had been severely
disrupted by the war.
The city had been the scene of
much fierce fishtins, beins occupied and relieved twice,
and had suftered sreat material damase.
Furthermore,
the Austrian authorities who had occupied Serbia pursued
a pOlicy aimed at crushine the national spirit of the
Serbs as an independent people.
It was recosnised that
the Serbs had sponsored discontented sroups within the
Empire durins the decade leadins up to the war, and were
heavilv implicated in the assassination of the archduke
in 1914.
Historv in schools was tausht in a wav which
minimised the achievements ot Serbia, cyrillic printins
px-esses were smashed,~oux-nals
ceased publication, and
cultux-al lite came to a virtual standstill with no
litex-ary works of value publiShed.
Manu writers had
left the country when the armv retreated across Albania
to tind x-efuseon Corfu.
Atter the war, the
representatives of pre-war Serbian literature were
dispersed and only.slowlv x-etux-ned to Bel",rade.
Bel",rade had suttered much ",reater damase than the
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