DRAME

by Miloš Crnjanski

Maska
Konak
Tesla

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

Miloš Crnjanski (in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански, pronounced [mîlɔʃ t͡srɲǎnskiː]) was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat. He initially wrote poetry but later turned to prose fiction and drama, as well. He wrote about his disillusionment, the futility of war and the destruction of his country.

Crnjanski was born in Csongrád, present day Hungary in 1893. His father was a municipal notary. The family moved to Temesvár (now Timisoara in Romania), where he grew up in a Serbian environment, favouring Serbian nationalism. After high school, he studied in Rijeka and then Vienna. After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, he was persecuted like other Serbs and then drafted into the army to fight the Russians. He was wounded in 1915, spending time in a hospital in Vienna. He was later sent back to the Italian front. He then studied art history and philosophy in Vienna and graduated from the University of Belgrade, where he had edited the student newspaper. He later worked as a teacher, a newspaper editor and an embassy press attaché in Berlin and then in the Yugoslav Embassy in Rome. He also worked as reporter in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In World War II, he escaped to London, where he remained after the war, becoming a British citizen. He worked in Hatchards, the bookshop, while his wife sewed dolls dresses for Harrods. He returned to Belgrade, Serbia in 1965, where he died in 1977.

Reviews

[Nataša · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crnjanski kao dramski pisac mi je novina, i osveženje. Dugo se nismo družili, iako su prethodna druženja bila i više nego prijatna. Svi se trude da ga postave uz Andrića, čak i više od njega, pa recimo da je moje nečitanje Crnjanskog mali rat protiv tog 'pravednici' mejnstrima.
Bilo bi veoma zanimljivo videti ove drame na sceni, a „Teslu“ i u školskom programu.

[Uroš Đurković · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lošmi je ozbiljno podbacio.

Izuzetno neubedljive, zbrkane, anahrone, samosvrhovite i nezanimljive drame bez ikakvog ishodišta koje iskupljuje samo pokoja inventivna i lucidna scenska napomena.