The Journal of Čarnojević

Miloš Crnjanski · 1893–1977 · Serbia

Originally Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću (Serbo-Croatian)

Why it matters

A Serbian soldier drifts through the trauma of the First World War in fragments of memory, dream, and yearning for a lost homeland. Crnjanski's founding text of Serbian literary modernism, written before Migrations.

At a glance

Fragmented, lyrical, dreamlike structure resists conventional chronology.