TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
knji~evni ;lasnik (66). His thir~ novel was Kap
.panske krvi (67). Like Po~zemni klub. it
contributes nothin~ to a~iscussion o~ time in
Crnjanski's novels. an~
is a historical costume ~rama.
Crnjanski later claimed that the book was pla~iarised
~or the ~ilm Lola Montez. althou~h this has been
disputed bv Branko Aleksi6 since there are manv sources
on which the ~ilm coul~ have relie~ (68). Critics have
pai~ scant attention to these novels. re~ar~in~ them on
the whole as in~erior to the ~our major works with which
this analvsis.is concerned. Onlv Crnjanski himsel~ ha~
anv re~ard ~or his novel Kap .panske krvi (69). He
continued to publish durin~
the 1930s. but increasinclv
these were items ~or
the popular press or travelocues.
In 1934 he published a bio~raphv o~ the the ~irst
Serbian archbishoP. Saint Sava (70).
In or~er to put into perspective the events o~
Crnjanski's li~e a~ter the Second World War it is
necessarv to sav somethin~
about the author and the
Political stance which he adopted in Yu~oslavia be~ore
the war.
In Crnjanski's poetrv and prose written durin~
and a~t.r the First World War there is a ~reat deal o~
ancer. bitterness. and cvnicism.
Crnjanski was a
tVpical pro~uct o~ the so-called lost ceneration who
experien'ced at first hand the horrors o~
modern war~are.
His poetrv was rebellious and full o~
scorn at the
literarv and social establishment.
He spoke of
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