TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
Crnjanski's lyricism was his originality. a byword for
innovation and excitement in literature. His other
prose works of this period are written with the same eye
to experimentation in prose style and exotic themes
It was also recognised that Crnjanski's novel
introduced a new type of narrative structure in which
the events of the novel are organised in a different way
from previous practice:
Dogadaji se - a to su uvek samo unutarnji
dolivljaji glavnog lica - redaju preko
reda. upli6u se jedan u drugi bez veze.
kao po nekoj ~udnoj asocijaciji. slivaju
se naglo i preko jedan u drugi kao slike
bolesnog sna kao oblici oblaka koje goni
vetar (lI.).
The events - and they are always only the
internal experiences of the main
character - are arranged contrary to
their order. are woven into one another
without a connection. as if by some
strange association. they flow suddenly
one into the other. like pictures in a
morbid dream. like the shapes of clouds
chased by the wind.
The choice of the critic's words. "veza". "slivaju se".
echo Crnjanski'sown vocabulary f:t>om his essay
"Obja§njenje 'Sumatre'".
A more recent critic has taken
a similar view on the structure of the novel. but
expressed herself differently:
Struktura Dnevnika je gradena na
principimasasvim razli~1t1m od principa
na kojim se gradi struktura klasi~noc
romana - nema hronolo§koc izlaganja
dogadaja sa'jasno ocrtanom fabulom koja
ima svoj jedinstven tok. ve6 se ostvaruje
poetsko pripovedanja u kome se prepli6u
razl1~ite vremenske ravni. razl1~it1
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