TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
project in the post-war years for its desire to capture
the new:
Jedna od najslabijih strana danainjes
naraitaja pisaca. to je jurenje za novim
i orisinalnim poito poto (45).
One of the weakest sides of today's
seneration of writers is their rush for
the new and orisinal at any price.
Branko Lazarevi6·reserved much of what he felt to be
undesirable in the poetry of the younser seneration for
Crnjanski himself. whom he accused of confusion (46).
He considered Crnjanski's poetic lansause at best
muddled. ridiculins him for his poetic imases. and
castisatins him for his inversion of traditionally
revered svmbols of the family and national pride.
However. even his fiercest critics had to, admit that
there was somethins in his poetry which at times touched
a chord in them, but that somethins was difficult to
define.
By 1924. "the heated controversarv as reflected
in the periodical, subsided into mere references to the
old and the new literature in seneralarticles" (41).
Rather than a debate won or lost. there had taken place
a sradual acceptance of the new trends.
Crnjanski
himself'had played a sianificant part in the proces ••
He described his own aesthetic in terms which emphasised
his affinity with the expressionist and futurist trends
in EuropeaenerallV •.
Crnjanski was one writer who himself contributed
(
another "ism" to the plethora of minor artistic
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