TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
Crnjanski's memoirs from Berlin 1928-1929. and 1935-
1938. his postin~ to Rome. and the war- and post-war
vears in London.
In the last part the editors have
incorporated much material which Crnjanski collected on
histo~ical and contempo~arv B~itish attitudes towa~ds
Se~bia. His bitte~ness about much ot what happened to
him in London is particularlv evident in this part.
In London. Crnj.n.ki b.c.m.· •• tr.nc.d ~rom
the
'micr' communi tv. and he and hi. wife faced m.nv
disappointment..
He records in Embahade a number of
inoidents in Whioh he felt that his sen.e of self-worth
was cha11enced. He had an a~cument with the 51avist
Elizabeth Hill over the qualitv of the BBC's broadcasts
to Yu~oslavia.
He faced another disappointment when he
was turned down for a lector.hip at Cambridce
Universitv.
For a brief period Crnjanski and his wife
were foroed to aooept the hospitalitv of Ladv Padcet.
but lett when thev felt that she was treatine them like
servants.
He tried to make a livinc as a writ.r. He becan a
novel called The Shoemakers (9A). but the attempt was
unsucoessfu~
because Crnjanski never mastered En~lish
suffioientlv for the task.
But, this novel whioh he
attempted to write in En~~ish
formed the·basis for his
novel eventuallv PUblished as Roman 0 Londonu. Havine
attended an extra-mural course at the Universitv of
London in international law. trade and historv. he