TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
1eader as "mi1itarista u najbo1jem smis1u re~i"
("a
militarist in the best sense ot the word") he turther
enraaed manv back home in Yuaos1avia bV his artic1es in
which he praised the experience ot war as one ot
up1ittment. which brouaht him into particu1ar cont1ict
with Miros1av Kr1e~a (77).
Althouah trequent1v absent trom Be1arade because ot
his dip10matic duties Crn;1anski.beaan pub1ication ot
another ~ournal. Ideje. in 1935. The journal has been
described as tascist. a1thouah he pub1ished the work ot
manv writers. inc1udina Ivo Andri6.
Towards the end ot
the 1930s he was posted to the embassv in Rome. where he
became aquai.nted with manv 1eadina members ot
Musso1ini's tascist aovernment.
He describes his
experiences in his memoirs. KodHvperOborejaca.
inc1udina his opposition to and dis1ike ot the
.overnment's anti-semitic policies. He was in Rome when
war broke out between Yuaos1avia and the Axis Powers.
Crnjanski's po1itics were not auided bv overt interest
in the detai1 ot doctrine.
His tendencv towards radical
Popu1ism at the end ot the Pirst Wor1d War has been
identitiedbv some as socialist. but bV the end ot the
first·decade atter the war he was tirm1v p1aced on the
J:'iaht.
His willin.ness to accept tascism is not
svnonomous with support tor tascist ideoloav. and he did
not trans1ate his nationa1ism into chauvinist terms at
the expense ott tor example. the Croats (78).
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