{"id":2450,"date":"2019-06-24T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2450"},"modified":"2024-11-09T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T13:46:44","slug":"novel-of-london","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/novel-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/milos-crnjanski\/\"><b>Milo\u0161 Crnjanski<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>A Novel of London<\/h2>\n<h3>Translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/will-firth\/\">Will Firth<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/milos-crnjanski\/\">Introduction by David Norris<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>ISBN:\u00a0978-1-944884-66-6 (pbk.)<\/p>\n<p>(March, 2020)\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolitnetwork.com\/from-a-novel-of-london-by-milos-crnjanski-translated-and-introduced-by-will-firth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read an excerpt from <em>A Novel of London<\/em> at ELN (European Literature Network)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themodernnovelblog.com\/2020\/07\/05\/milos-crnjanski-roman-o-londonu-novel-of-london\/\">Read a review and commentary at The Modern Novel blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>A Novel of London<\/em> is a classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Milo\u0161 Crnjanski (pronounced Tsern-YUN-ski) as one of the great eastern European voices of the 20th century. The over-600-page translation was released at the London Book Fair in March 2020. This is the first English edition, almost five decades after the publication of the original.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Belgrade in 1971 as <em>Roman o Londonu<\/em>, the novel follows an aging Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9, Nikolai Repnin, as he attempts to make a life in the British capital in the 1940s, painting a starkly revelatory 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.\u00a0Repnin is beset by memories of home but has no opportunity of making a home in the new environment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the title, the book is far more than just a novel about London. 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\u2019s cities after the Revolution, he encounters a host of \u00e9migr\u00e9s 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. While Crnjanski can be scathing and even cynical, the book is peppered with humor and quirky details that introduce levity and help create a sensitive, expressionist collage.<\/p>\n<p>Repnin is accompanied through most of the novel by his beautiful wife, Nadya, ten years his junior, whom he wishes to save from poverty by sending her to America to stay with her aunt, also a Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9, who has found her feet in New York. Their marital drama is one of the main themes of <em>A Novel of London<\/em>. Repnin\u2019s encounters with White Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9s, and Britons with certain vested interests, allow intrigue and espionage to be developed as subthemes. There is also a definite existentialist strand as Repnin contemplates suicide, particularly after his wife\u2019s departure for the New World.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/milos-crnjanski\/\">Milo\u0161 Crnjanski<\/a> (1893\u20131977) is considered one of the foremost Yugoslav literary figures of the last century. Along with Miroslav Krle\u017ea (1893\u20131981) and Ivo Andri\u0107 (1892\u20131975), he left a lasting imprint on the literature of the region.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;Crnjanski has the genius of archetypes of history and human behavior. In <em>A Novel of London<\/em> he has woven a subtle meditation on the evil of our century&#8230; [but] also an immense poem of love and sacrifice.&#8221; \u00a0 <br \/>\n<strong>\u2014<em>L&#8217;Age d&#8217;Homme<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;a powerful recreation of the migrant experience\u00a0in the twentieth century.&#8221; \u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014David Norri<\/strong>s, from the Introduction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crnjanski does not deride the citizens of London in his alternating theses and antitheses&#8230;. Rather,\u00a0he does it more tastefully and gently, with a smile of amusement, intimately, and with his characteristic irony.&#8221; \u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Mirnes Sokolovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crnjanski evokes hope and despair at the same time; not one and then the other, but those two feelings at the same time, intertwined.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Mascom\/Booking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolitnetwork.com\/from-a-novel-of-london-by-milos-crnjanski-translated-and-introduced-by-will-firth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read an excerpt from <em>A Novel of London<\/em> at ELN (European Literature Network)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themodernnovelblog.com\/2020\/07\/05\/milos-crnjanski-roman-o-londonu-novel-of-london\/\">Read a review and commentary at The Modern Novel blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milo\u0161 Crnjanski<br \/>\n9781944884666<br \/>\nFirst translation of the Eastern European masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[236,17],"product_tag":[45,382,341,26,276,342],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-dialogos","8":"product_tag-fiction","9":"product_tag-fiction-translation","10":"product_tag-milos-crnjanski","11":"product_tag-serbia","12":"product_tag-serbian","13":"product_tag-will-firth","14":"product_shipping_class-heavy","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"sale","19":"featured","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple","24":"berocket_lgv_grid","25":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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