Imaginary hypostases of the soldier in Miloš Crnjanski's novels or the war between collectivity and individuality Cover Image

Ipostaze imagologice ale soldatului în romanele lui Miloš Crnjanski sau războiul dintre colectivitate şi individualitate
Imaginary hypostases of the soldier in Miloš Crnjanski's novels or the war between collectivity and individuality

Author(s): Octavia Nedelcu
Subject(s): Novel, Serbian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: war literature; World War One; soldier; imagology; Miloš Crnjanski; lyrical novel;

Summary/Abstract: Miloš Crnjanski is a Serbian writer who approaches the theme of war between individuality and collectivity. The uniqueness of his novels can be seen in the professions he chooses for his characters, most of them being soldiers, officers, warriors, military men. The literature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire brought to life, like no other literature, the military aristocracy. In this paper we submit to analysis the imagological aspects of the soldier in the author’s vision in three poetic novels: The journal of Čarnojević, Migrations and Novel about London. Through the means of ironical discourse, Crnjansky refused to integrate the war and the sufference in a logical, coherent context, to give cosncience, judgement and reason to characters, reason that would make out of chaos a construction determined by the cause-effect relationship.

  • Issue Year: L/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 195-207
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian