The paper deals with the multiple identities deconstruction of the historical and literary character Lola Montez in the novel A Drop of Spanish Blood / Kap španske krvi (1932) by MilošCrnjanski. ...Opening the area of unconsciousness, eroticism and psychology, the paper will point at the Baroque atmosphere from which the figure of this exotic, demonic femme fatale emerged.
The article talks about the condition of female characters in some novels of the Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski – Migrations, A Novel of London and Journal of Čarnojević. In Crnjanski’s novels, the ...male characters organize the narrative networksm in literature and in real life, and the female charcaters function as a sounding board for the socio-historical upheavel intimatley transposed. Dafina, Nadia and Maca are wives of soldiers which are experience both, collective drama and personal drama, exodus, battles, lng pilmgrimages, building and deconstructing successivley the identity, in the eternal dream of stability.
This study of Tsernianski’s masterful twentieth-century historical novel Migrationsfollows two paths: i) a literary analysis of the overarching plot, individual narrative episodes,thematics, as well ...as the cast of characters in order to bring into relief not only Tsernianski’s superb narrative skill but also the texture of the social fresco he paints; and ii) an examination of the desire to emigrate to Russia which was alive in the Serbian imagination in the eighteenth century and most vividly in the consciousness of the novel’s main character, Vuk Isakovic. This study identifies and systematizes references to Russia with respect both to the fictional world and imagination of the main character and to the historical reality motivating the novel’s action.
Value judgments when it comes to two writers and their works can never be complete and accurate, but Miloš Crnjanski (1893-1977) and Dušan Vasiljev (1900-1924) share many similarities in creative, ...spiritual, biographical and even geographic terms. Despite their different destinies and distinctive critical appraisals, the similarities in their lyrics mainly stem from the fact that the two poets published their work in one of the most significant and complex moments in the development of the Serbian poetry, when a series of foreign and domestic literary trends came forward under the name of Expressionism, namely Modernism. We therefore tried to demonstrate in our paper that, in the case of Vasiljev, epigonism was out of question, although Crnjansky was an idol and a permanent source of inspiration to him, because his poetry was indeed personal, which was useless to prove.
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