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A NOVEL OF LONDON - ROMAN O LONDONU - Miloš Crnjanski

A NOVEL OF LONDON - ROMAN O LONDONU - Miloš Crnjanski

Šifra: B-73-755

Published in Belgrade in 1971 as Roman o Londonu, the novel follows an aging Russian émigré, Nikolai Repnin, as he attempts to make a life in the British capital in the 1940s, painting a stark portrait of the war-battered city through the eyes of a person living in a constant state of rejection and alienation. Born a Russian noble in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, Repnin is now reduced to eking out a living from odd jobs in the huge city, whose buildings, monuments, citizens and customs he portrays with fascination.

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DETALJNIJE

Category: HOME CLASSICS
Author: Miloš Crnjanski
Publisher: OFFICIAL GAZETTE
Letter: Latin
Binding: Hard
Year: 2022
Format: 14x20
Number of Pages: 869

This local classic was translated into English by Will Firth, while the introduction was written by David Norris.

A NOVEL OF LONDON is a classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski as one of the great eastern European voices of the 20th century. The over-600-page translation will be the first English edition.

As Repnin wanders the streets and the bureaucracy of the bombed-out city, reminiscing about his opulent past in Russia and subsequent odyssey through Europe's cities after the Revolution, he encounters a host of émigrés from around the world, whose stories also unfold. A pan-European portrait of class structures and the real effects of the war emerges, a vision whose depth and scope may be unmatched in 20th century literature.