To this day, Milos Crnjanski, the greatest Serbian author of the 20th century, awaits his discovery in Germany. The autobiography published in 1959 - its title references the early, groundbreaking poem cycle "Ithaka" - is an unparalleled literary document. Central European subjects, as we know them from Kosztolányi and M. Blecher, unfold in the factographic style of the left Russian avant-garde. No one has described the last days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the horrors in the trenches of Galicia, and the early years of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with such harshness and bitterness. In this terse protocol prose, the inconspicuous detail stands so seamlessly alongside the world-historical catastrophe that both weigh equally heavy or light.