Miloš Crnjanski
Miloš Crnjanski | |
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Born | 26 October 1893 Csongrád, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 30 November 1977 Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia | (aged 84)
Resting place | Belgrade New Cemetery |
Occupation | Poet, writer, journalist, diplomat |
Language | Serbian |
Nationality | Serbian |
Alma mater | University of Vienna, University of Belgrade |
Period | Avant-garde |
Genre | poetry, novel, short story, essay, travel literature, memoir |
Literary movement | Expressionism |
Notable works | Migrations, Lament over Belgrade, The Journal of Carnojevic, A novel about London |
Notable awards | NIN award |
Spouse | Vida Ružić |
Miloš Crnjanski (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански, pronounced [mîloʃ tsrɲǎnski]; 26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a Serbian writer and poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat.
Biography
Crnjanski was born in Csongrád (modern-day Hungary), to an impoverished family which moved in 1896 to Temesvár (modern-day Timișoara, Romania).[1] He completed the elementary school in Pančevo, and Grammar school in Timișoara.[2] Then he started attending the Export academy in Rijeka in 1912, and in the autumn of the following year he started studying mathematics and philosophy in Vienna.[1]
At the beginning of World War I, Crnjanski was persecuted as part of the general anti-Serbian retribution of Austria to
After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1922,[2] he taught at the Fourth Belgrade Grammar School and espoused "radical modernism" in articles for periodicals including Ideje, Politika and Vreme – sparking "fierce literary and political debates".[1]
In 1928 in a semi-diplomatic capacity, he spent a year in Berlin after joining the Central Press Bureau of the Yugoslav Government.[4]
He entered the diplomatic corps for the
Crnjanski, aged 84, died in Belgrade on 30 November 1977.[1] He is interred in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the Belgrade New Cemetery.[5]
He is considered to be a classic of the Serbian literature by the scholars as well as the public.[6]
Works
Crnjanski's first books portrayed the futility of war. He laid the foundations of the early avant-garde movement in Serbian literature, as exemplified by his 1920 Objašnjenje Sumatre (The Explanation of Sumatra);[1]
‘The world still hasn't heard the terrible storm above our heads, while shakings come from beneath, not from political relations, not from literary dogmas, but from life. Those are the dead reaching out! They should be avenged.’
Crnjanski published a large number of works of various subjects and contents:
Poetry
- Lyrics of Ithaca (1918)
- Chosen verses (1954)
- Lament over Belgrade (1965);
Tales
- Stories about men (1924)
Novels
- The Journal of Carnojevic(Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću, 1921)
- Migrations (Seobe, 1929)
- Second book of Migrations (Seobe, knjiga druga, 1962)
- Kod Hiperborejaca (1965)
- Kap španske krvi (1970)
- A Novel of London (Roman o Londonu, 1971)
- Suzni krokodil (unfinished)
- Podzemni klub (questionable)
Dramas
- Masks (1918)
- Doss-house (1958)
- Nikola Tesla
Itineraries
- Ljubav u Toskani (1930)
- Knjiga o Nemačkoj (1931)
- Pisma iz Pariza
- U zemlji toreadora i sunca
Other
- Sveta Vojvodina (1919)
- Antologojia Kineske lirike, anthology (1923)
- Naše plaže na Jadranu (1927)
- Boka Kotorska – Der golf von Kotor (1928)
- Pesme starog Japana, anthology (1928)
- Sveti Sava (1934)
- Sabrana dela (1966)
- Stražilovo, poem (1973)
- Knjiga o Mikelanđelu, posthumous (1981)
- Embahade, posthumous (1985)
- Naša nebesa
Lost works
- Son of Don Kihot, novel
- O ljubavi, drama
- Gundulić, drama
- Prokleti knez, drama
- Juhahaha, comedy inspired by Peter I of Serbia
- The Shoemakers of London,
Some of the works were destroyed by the author himself, while other manuscripts of the novel Son of Don Kihot was lost on the way to the print house. Some of his works are said to have been stolen in London. He also wrote many essays, articles, and other texts.
Migrations has been translated into English (Harvill 1994,
A Novel of London has been translated to English by Will Firth about 50 years after its original appearance in Serbian (Diálogos 2020, ISBN 9781944884666).[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Đorđijević, Milena; Domazet, Tatjana (2019-10-25). "Miloš Crnjanski: a literary life of migration and exile". Europeana (CC By-SA). Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ a b Živan Milisavac (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Spanish). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. pp. 65–67.
- ISBN 978-90-04-33549-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-420-3272-9.
- ^ Petrović, Piše: Dragoljub. "Zasluge određuje vlast". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian (Cyrillic script)). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ISBN 978-86-519-0448-9.
- ^ "Vesna Goldsworthy reviews A Novel of London by Miloš Crnjanski - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com. Retrieved 2023-01-13.