TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
the ~rou~
and Bogdan Popovi6, who opened the pages ot
the estabJ.ishment journaJ. Srpski knji!evni gJ.asnik to
them (51).
The empathy which Crnjanski teJ.t tor the poets ot
Serbian Romanticism, particularlv the work ot Branko
Rad~~evi6, has not gone unnot~ced by the cr~tics.
Aleksandar Petrov, in h~s book Poezija Crnjansko~ i
srpsko pesniltvo. maintains that Crnjanski's poetry
represents a break with previous poetry. but enters a
Qualification:
U pesni~kom delu. me&utim. on nastavlja
jedan vid "sporedne" pesni~ke linije iz
prethodne pesni~ke epohe. a oslonac trali
u ran~joj tradiciji srpske poez~je. Nova
pesni~ka epoha Crnjanskovim delom
obnavlja srpsku pesni~ku tradiciju od
po~etka. zapravo od po~etka novije
poezije (52).
In his poetic work. however. he continues
one aspect of a "secondary" poetic J.ine
from the previous poetic era. while
searohin~ for· support in an earlier
tradit~on of Serbian poetrv. The new
poetic.era as examplified bV Crnjanski's
work renews the Serbian poetic tradition
trom the beginnin~. f'rom the very
be~innin~ of' modern poetrv.
The be~inning of' modern poetrv to wh~ch Petrov here
ref'ers is marked by the appearance of' Branko Radi~evi6
and earlv Serbian attempts to create a modern poetic
lan~uage
where the models of' f'olk poetry dominated.
Crnjanski recorded his af'finity with Rad~~evi6
interview with Ljuba Vukmanovi6 in 1967 (53).
in an
For
Crnjanski poetry af'ter the First WorJ.d War was creating
a new poetic diction. hence his empathv with the
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