THE LOSS OF LOGICAL CONNECTIONS IN ROMAN O LONDONU

Abstract

Miloš Crnjanski’s last novel is marked by a collision between a man and a town. Although the narrator reveals the true face of liberal-capitalist society, it seems that the absence of any connection between London and Rjepnin is not only a consequence of the unifying aspirations of this city, but also the inability of London to be Petersburg, the city of the protagonist’s youth. In that sense, the paper discusses the thesis that this is, as the novel itself claims, mostly a novel about London. The issue of loss of meaning, or logical connections, becomes key, while London is only a symbol of a world in which there is no longer a logical order, which will have consequences for the very form of this novel.