СЛИКА ВОЈНИКА ИЗМЕЂУ ДЕФЕТИЗМА И ПАТРИОТИЗМА КОД МИЛОША ЦРЊАНСКОГ И ЛИВИЈУА РЕБРЕАНУА
THE IMAGE OF THE SOLDIER BETWEEN DEFEATISM AND PATRIOTISM IN THE WORKS OF M. CRNJANSKI „THE JOURNAL OF CARNOJEVIC“ AND L. REBREANU „FOREST OF THE HANGED“

Summary/Abstract: The literature of the Austro-Hungarian empire brought to life, like no other literature, the military aristocracy. One hundred years have passed since the outbreak of the First World War, a historical event with dramatic consequences on the collective mentality and on rewriting the geographical, cultural and identity map of the European nations, representing on a literary level a source of inexhaustible inspiration for a lot of writers. This is the case of these two great writers M. Crnjanski and L. Rebreanu who in their novels The Journal of Carnojevic and Forest of the hanged approach the drama of the Serbian and Romanians soldiers who are forced to fight against their own people. In this paper we will try to analyse in a contrastive manner the protagonists of the two novels, the soldier Jovan Rajić and the officer Apostol Bologa, the problems of consciousness and the identity crisis they confront with, between defeatism and patriotism. Although both novels start from the personal experiences of the authors, they find different solutions for reflecting the war in limit situations from the anchoring into reality of the internal drama of Rebreanu`s character to the exhausting dreaming of Crnjanski`s character. Both novels have a very clear anti-war message.

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