TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
considered counter-revolutionaries.
Manv o~
the writers and critics whom Crnjanski had
attacked for their political views in the 1930s were now
in positions of power. He was denounced ~or the views
which he had expressed before the war. and particularlv
for his launchinz of the journal Ideje (83).
His work
was excluded from official publications. and his
contribution to the development of Serbian literature in
the twentieth centurv iznored.
The campaizn of
vili~icationazainst
him reached its peak in Marko
Risti6's article "Tri mrtva pesnika". which appeared in
1954 (84). Risti6 was an important political fizure.
havinz been ambassador in Paris for the new Yuzoslav
state ~rom 1945 to 1951. In his article he reflects on
the li~e
and work of three poets: Rastko Petrovi6. Paul
Eluard. and Milo. Crnjanski.
The ~irsttwo were dead.
and he expressed admiration for their achievements.
He
could not hide admiration ~or
Crnjanski's work too. but
he considered that since 1929 and the publication of
Beobe, Crnjanski had been artisticallN sterile and
pro-fascist.
Crnjanski was not without his Supporters amonzst
the Selzrade intellizentsia. After 1948 when relations
between Yuzoslavia and the Soviet union broke down. the
nature of the communists' approach to zovernment beean
to chanze.
TheN ceased usine the state apparatus as an
instrument of coercion and relaxed their hold over manv
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