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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER ONE<br />

first cained his reputation as a writer in Be~crade's<br />

~iterarv<br />

circles durinc the period described bV<br />

Pa~avestra<br />

as the second phase of Serbian modernism<br />

1919-1929 (4). Poetry was the dominant cenre of those<br />

veal's, and the ~vrical nature of his two ear~v nove~s,<br />

Dnevnik 0 ~arnojevi6u and Seobe (S), led many<br />

critics to recard his work as that of a poet rather than<br />

a novelist:<br />

Me~uratni su kriti~ari Dnevnik i Seobe<br />

nazivali ili "lirskim" ili "poetskim"<br />

romanima, i pri tome su svakako ima~i na<br />

umu - verovatno vile neco mi danas - da<br />

je ove romane napisao izraziti liri~ar<br />

(6 ).<br />

Critics from between the wars termed<br />

Dnevnik and Seobe "lvrical" or<br />

"poetic" novels, and bv that of course<br />

they had in mind - probablv more than we<br />

do today - that these novels were written<br />

by an outstandinc ~vricist.<br />

Petkovi6's sentiment expressed in the above Quotation<br />

has been echoed bV others, and has not always been<br />

confined to the critics of those veal's. Pav~e Zori6<br />

becan his 1972 article "Struktura poetske proze Milola<br />

Crnjanskoc" with the statement:<br />

Gotovo svi kriti~ari koji su pisali 0<br />

romanima Milola Crnjanskoc isticali su<br />

njihove poetske kvalitete (7).<br />

Almost a~~ the critics who have written<br />

about the novelS of Milol crnjanski have<br />

emphasised their poetic Q~alities.<br />

Part of the purpose ot this ana~vsis<br />

is to consider<br />

Crnjanski's tour major novels as part ot a narrative<br />

opus in his lite's work, with common thematic<br />

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