TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
radical members of the ~roup
could not accept his
decision to publish in what the¥ regarded as an academic
organ of the establishment.
intended from the be~innin~
The liberal minded Popovic
of the new series to
continue his polic¥ of reflectin~
all the artistic
trends of the capital and to report on developments
abroad (42).
He pUblished Crnjanski's poem "Sumatra".
but the startling ori~inali t¥ of t.he poem. which marked
it as "a poem rather different from an¥ published
hitherto in Serbian" (43). prompted him to ask Crnjanski
for an ess&¥ in which he could outline his views on
literature and art. and provide an explanation of the
poem to help the conservativereadin~
public.to
understand it better. The appearance of the poem and
ess&¥ttObja~njenje 'Sumatre'" in the pa~es of Bel~rade's
most respected literar¥ journal marked the arrival of
the post-war generation and strengthened·their voice in
Belgrade's literar¥ circles.
It.came to provide a forum
for debate between the older and ¥oun~er
~enerations
(44). and for the eventual acceptance of the new poets
influenced bv modernist European trends.
Popovi6's invitation to the vounger poets to
pUblish their work in Srpski kn;li!evni Ilasnik did not
si~nal
WOl'k.
the literarV establishment's approval of their
On-the contrarv. there were manv critics bitterl¥
Opposed to the aesthetic sensibilities of the ¥oun~er
generat:1on.
Marko Car attacked the whol.e modernist
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