TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
wider perspective which places Crnjanski's work in the
broader framework of literarv historv and European
oulture.
Crnjanski Between the Wars
The major part of this section is devoted to
Crnjanski and Serbian modernism.
role which he plaved in Bel~rade's
In addition to the
literarv world durin~
the twenties, partioular attention is drawn to the wav
in which Crnjanski and·critics have used the terms
Romantic and lvric. These terms have contributed to the
mar~inalisation
of the studv of time in his novels.
This section also introduces Crnjanski's works of the
period from 1919 to 1941 and'Yucoslavia's involvement in
the Second World War.
A third feature of this section
is the author's politics. His political stanoe durina
the thirties alienated him from manv collea~ues
and
supporters, ·and ~reatlv
influenced the shape of his life
after the Second World War.·
Ct-njanski's eat-lier novels appeared durin~
the most
prolific .periodo1' the author's' life, and one which· is
marked bv his most intense involvement in the polemios
Of lBelerade's literarv circles. His lar~e
output has
e""'ned him the reputation of the "sred.1..nja litSnost"
(ttoentr&l 1'il:ure" 26) amoncst the vounl:er ceneration of
pOst-war modernist poets in Bel~rade.
Althoul:h his
reputation was first established bv the appearanoe of
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