TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
of those whose purpose is to attempt to explain meanin~.
For Crnjanski, the most effective ~an~ua~e
aimed at expressiveness and ori~inality.
was one which
In reference
to the work of Laza Kosti6, a pre-war. poet who was
closely connected with the transition from Romanticism
to modernism in Serbian poetry, he remarked:
Bezbrojni novi izrazi; ritmovi i re~i u
tim stihovima pripadaju sarno tom pesniku,
iako su sasvim u duhu to~ o~romno~ talasa
omladinsko~ shvatanja livota"(57).
Countless new expressions. rh~thms and
words in the verses belon~ onl~ to that
poet. althou~h they are completely in the
spirit of that hu~e wave of Youn~ Serbian
concept of life.
The connection between modernism and Romanticism in
Crnjanski's work is not a continuity of the sarne
historical period, but an indication of the reworkin~
of
previous styles and themes, as pointed out by Predra~
Palavestra:
Pesni~ki rad i romansijerski rad Milo.a
Crnjansko~ pripadaju istom jedinstvenom
duhovnom i stvarala~kom opredeljenju. i
neodvojivi su jedan od·dru~o~a. Nalavli
set posle prvoa svetskoa rata, na ~elu
prevratni~kih knjilenih pokreta,
Crnjanski jet ne prekidaju6i liniju
koju su pre njeaa nazna~ili Laza Kosti6
i Vladislav Petkovi6-Dis, razvio novu,
osvelenu romanti~arsku struju u srpskoj
poeziji i svojom pojavom obele!io kona~an
raskid sa starom pesni~kom .kolom
dekorativno~ sjaja i artizma (58).
The poetic work and novelistic work of
Milol Crnjanski belona to the same unique
spiritual and creative trend, and they
are inseparable one from the other.
Findina himselt, atter the First World
War, at the head of the rebellious
literary movements, Crnjanski. without
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