TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
itselt under constant creation. modulated by the twin
principles ot simultaneity and rhythm.
Simultaneity and
rhythm are principles which have transcendental.
psycholoaical. ontoloaical. and historical sianiticance.
but they are not reducible to anv one of these
cateaories.
Crnjanski's views on time are tvpical ot the
modernist understandina ot time. but more importantly
they are also aspects of his sumatraist stvle. Since
the oriain ot sumatraism itselt is a literary reterence.
and since he advocated a close link between lanauaae and
the content ot experience. we must examine his use ot
lanauaae in relation to time.
Lanauaae is not only
vocabulary and syntax. but also literarv torm and stvle.
It is the broader context ot the materials at a
novelist's disposal.
As a novelist Crnjanski orders his
material in wavs whiCh retlects the prinCiple ot
simultaneitv and the rhvthm ot a torm ot cvclic time.
In his novels much ot what happens is tiltered throuah
the consciousness of characters. or related directly by
narrators.
It is. theretore. only possible to aive a
tull account ot his use of lanauaae and narrative
structures in relation to the ditterent narratina
voices.
In part. it is throuah the muitiplicitv ot
ditterent voices that his material achieves its temporal
complexitv.
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