Heptateuch on Miloš: the Real Crnjanski

Gorana Raičević. Agon i melanholija: Život i delo Miloša Crnjanskog [The Agon and the Melancholy: The Life and Works of Miloš Crnjanski]. Novi Sad: Akademska knjiga, 2021, 878 pp.

  • Srđan Orsić Faculty of Philosophy University of Novi Sad
Keywords: scientific review, Serbian Literature, Miloš Crnjanski

Abstract

Gorana Raičević (1964) brought together decades of reading and experience with the oeuvre and biography of Miloš Crnjanski, one of the most intensive and comprehensive in the history of Serbian literary historiography, in her new book titled Agon and Melancholy: The Life and Work of Miloš Crnjanski (Raičević 2021). The author has already dedicated three of her monographs to Crnjanski - Essays by Miloš Crnjanski (2005), Tamers of Fate: About Crnjanski and Andrić (2010) and Comments on Miloš Crnjanski's "Diary about Čarnojević" (2010) - with her new book, which can be said to with its scope and reach, it represents the combined seven monographic publications, completes its ten-volume work on one of the essential Serbian writers, repaying him for everything he bequeathed to us, thus raising a unique and praiseworthy literary monument to him.

References

Gorana Raičević. Agon i melanholija: Život i delo Miloša Crnjanskog. Novi Sad: Akademska knjiga, 2021.

Published
2022-12-25
Section
(Critical) review