Great War legacies in Serbian culture
In the aftermath of the Great War, Ivo Andrić published a number of poems, essays and short stories describing the hard-won victorious outcome as transient to the dire reality of the inordinate loss of human lives and suffering. Yet, personal experiences, although perceived as ephemeral,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2015/0350-76531546241M.pdf |
| Summary: | In the aftermath of the Great War, Ivo Andrić published a number of poems,
essays and short stories describing the hard-won victorious outcome as
transient to the dire reality of the inordinate loss of human lives and
suffering. Yet, personal experiences, although perceived as ephemeral,
helped to define the historical discourse capturing man’s resolve to persist
in his chosen mission. Over time, Serbian literature and fine arts sustained
an unfinished dialogue of the past and the present, merging the individual
voices with the collective voices to construct the national narrative. The
young writer Miloš Crnjanski observed the sights of destruction and despair
that seemed to pale in new literary works pertaining to the war. His novel A
Diary about Čarnojević was closely related to his own perilous wartime
journey as a conscript in the Austrian army. The vastness of Pannonian
plains and Galician woods must have invoked a comparison of sorts with
another historic chapter recorded in the collective consciousness of his
nation: the Great Migration of Serbs led by Patriarch Arsenije III
Čarnojević (Crnojević) in 1690. The very title of the novel contained a
powerful reference to the migration, and its illustrious historic leader
which has not been discussed or explored before. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 2406-0801 |