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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER TWO<br />

modernism.<br />

Sumatra is the name o~<br />

an is1and in the South Seas<br />

and evokes an exoticism which is characteristic o~<br />

modernism. More speci~1ca11Y. it is a term red01ent o~<br />

Gaucuin's many years spent on another South Sea is1and.<br />

Tahiti. However. when considerinc the oricin o~ the<br />

term in Crnjanski's poem we ~ind<br />

a 1iterary re~erence<br />

which is more in~ormative than details o~ an artistic.<br />

ceocraphica1. or biocraphica1 nature.<br />

The word<br />

"sumatra" echoes part o~ the phonetics o~ the ~irst 1ine<br />

o~ a poem written by Sima Pandurovi6. "Svetkovina"s<br />

"Si161i smo s uma u ejajan dan" ("We went. out o~<br />

our<br />

minds one ~ine<br />

day" 1).· Pandurovi6's poem. pub1ished<br />

be~ore the First Wor1d War, represented the strain o~<br />

svmb01ist and intimist Urricpoetry much criticized in<br />

its day.<br />

Pandurovi6 andPetkovi6-Dis were two pre-war<br />

poets whose work is important in the development o~<br />

the<br />

~irstphase o~ therebe11ious·new poetr~ o~ Serbian<br />

modernism. Crnjanski makes a speci~ic re~erence to<br />

Pandurovi6. and to his in~luence<br />

on his own work in the<br />

years immediate1y a~ter<br />

the war. in his 1929 essay<br />

"Pos1eratn.a knjilevnost"s<br />

Pandurovi6 jet tada. za mene bio<br />

najistaknutiji pesnik na16e "Moderne". i<br />

n.;fecove dYe pes.e iz Ant010a1.;fe znao<br />

sam na1zust (2)<br />

Then, Pandurov16 was tor me the most<br />

prominent poet oP our "Moderna", and I<br />

knew by heart h1s two poems ~rom the<br />

AntholoR· .<br />

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