TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
areas of social and cultural life. The questionin~
of
official views and accepted practices became more
common.
In this atmosphere, the pressure to
rehabilitate Crnjanski ~rew.
In 1952. Zoran Mili6
defended Crnjanski's reputation as a poet in an article
"0 smislu i besmislu" (85). The debate about Crnjanski
has continued. althou~h
his political stance has come to
occupv a less central position. 'His behaviour in the
late twenties and thirties. which involved him in a
number of court cases. was less important to those who
were not directlv involved.
Concern was increasin~lv
focused on Crnjanski's literarv value and his
outstandin~
contribution to Serbian literature this
centurv. Predra~ Palavestra published an article in
1959 defendin~ Crnjanski's reputation as a poet (86).
He noted that after the official sponsorship of
socialist realism bV the communist authorities
immediatelv after the war, voun~er
poets of the mid- and
late 1950s were turnin~
to the modernist poets of
Crnjanski's ~eneration for models. He entitled his
article "Jedan livi pesnik". plavin~
on the caustic
title of Risti6's earlier condemnation of Crnjanski.
Book-len~th
studies of his work since then have been
written bV Nikola Milolevi6, Aleksandar Petrov, Patar
Dladli6.-S1avko Laovao, Novioa 'etkovi6, Stevka Imit~an.
and two oollection. of e •• av. devoted to hi. wO~k have
bean published (81).