num_pages: 738
description: A NOVEL OF LONDON is a classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Milo Crnjanski as one of the great eastern European voices of the 20th century. The over-600-page translation will be the first English edition. Published in Belgrade in 1971 as Roman o Londonu the novel follows an aging Russian migr 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. 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 migrs 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.
language: Serbian
title: Roman o Londonu
publisher: Prosveta, U.S.A.