ПРВИ СВЕТСКИ РАТ КАО ОКВИР ЗА РАЗУМЕВАЊЕ СРПСКОГ МОДЕРНИЗМА
THE FIRST WORLD WAR AS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE SERBIAN MODERNISM

Summary/Abstract: The assumption that World War I had a pervasive influence on Serbian modernist literature, though generally accepted, has largely been left unexamined. This paper attempts to readdress that assumption by examining the implications of several notions which frequently reappear in the writings of key modernist authors. For those of them who began their careers in the shade of the Great War - as did Miloš Crnjanski, Ivo Andrić, and Rastko Petrović - the most significant of these notions was that of a tight analogy between the cataclysmic effect of the war and their own desire for a break with the previous literary idiom. By tracing the echoes of the war in their subsequent writing, this article seeks to demonstrate that this notion was, in fact, far more consequential than mere biographical evidence would have us believe.

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