Własny pokój – cztery ściany płaczu Milicy Janković
A Room of One’s Own – Within the Four Walls of Tears of Milica Janković

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an analysis of the work Među zidovima (1932) of Serbian writer from the modernistperiod – Milica Janković (1881–1939). The article focuses on presenting the innovative elementsof her prose which opposed the Serbian literary tradition. The main subject of Među zidovima isa physical disease that affects the mental condition. The article also shows the possibility to readthe aforementioned work from an autobiographical perspective, as Milica Janković for many yearssuffered from bone tuberculosis. This work contains numerous references to her biography. Theconclusion of the paper is that Milica Janković, drawing on her own experience, has created anintimate work, in which she described her life with the severe, incurable disease.

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