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Cosmopolitanism or Patriotism?: Transculturality of Miloš Crnjanski

Sun, November 24, 10:00 to 11:45am, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Floor: 4, Pacific D

Abstract

Novelist, poet, journalist, anti-Communist dissident, Miloš Crnjanski (1893-1977) was a Yugoslav diplomat in Rome and in Berlin before the Second World War. His connection to Yugoslav Royal government cost him of 25 years of exile in London (1941-1965). British government, who supported the royal family Karađorđević before the War, suddenly changed its politics and acknowledged Tito’s regime. Notwithstanding a complete isolation and the lack of support by any ideological framework, including Yugoslav emigration in London, Crnjanski will produce his greatest works (The Second Book of Migrations, A Novel about London, Lament over Belgrade).The aim of this paper is to analyze the transcultural aspects of Miloš Crnjanski’s work, which consist of his involvement in both “national” and in “foreign” cultural and literary space. Crnjanski’s work could also be interpreted as a specific form of dissident activity, literary creation representing both an artistic and an existential act of defiance.

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