Paved streets are taking the place of mud and cobblestones, while men educated in Western universities are striving to replace the notional myths of the largely peasant population by more rational ways of thinking.Always a realist, both by intellectual constitution and in his narrative designs, he never lost sight in his fictional world of the fact that these changes are difficult and his characters frequently bear the imprint of two worlds. His Belgrade of the 1920s and 1930s is a city in development. Describing the fabric of Serbian society before the Second World War he painted a picture of a fledgling democracy struggling to emerge in Europe and leave behind the legacy of Balkan primitivism. His novels such as Prijatelji ('The Friends') and Ocevi i oci ('Fathers and Forefathers') and plays such as Ruzenje naroda ('Spiting the Nation') and Knez Pavle ('Prince Paul') have dominated the last 15 years in Belgrade.His chief preoccupation concerned the coming to power of the Communists in 1945 and their destruction of the economic, political and cultural life of his country.
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