TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
i vi~u: "Izdajice. izdajice." Ja spu§tam
novine i ~ledam u mutne krovove. Vidim
sne!ne pol;Jane. A na Jadranu ide sad
prole6e po vodi od otoka do otoka. Po
krovovima pada neka !uta tama zorom.
topla. bla~a. sjajna (16)~
Yes. I remember. On the coast it is now
sprin~. And I am lvine down and readine
the newspaper andlookin~ at the small
ba~s full of snow clutched at our chests.
I am readin~ the newspaper and
rememberin~. I am a soldier. I am no-one
and nothin~ and evervthin~ which has
happened I don't underst~nd. Blood is
spilt in Petroerad. Maxim Gorkv is
cal line the wretched souls home and in
the parliament at Pest sits Baron
Raja~i6. pale and ridiculed. And around
h~m thev jump and shout "Tra~tor.
traitor." I put the newspaper down and
stare at the hazv roofs. I can see the
snowv fields. And on the Adriatic sprine
is now movine across the water trom
island to ~sland. A vellow cloom at
daWn. warm. mild. ahinina. talla acroa.
the root's.
The diarv contains manv such passa~es
in which certain
detaila appear in rapid auooession: "we touched some
tainted women and we bouaht 80me ohocolate", " ••• and nw
windows are vellow"; "on the coast it is now sprine".
Such deta~ls
contribute to the depiction of the
diarist's mood. and sometimes d~sruPt
the passace
between the time Of writine and the time of the events.
since it is not alwavs clear to which time scheme thev
belonc.
actions.
In other words. thev disrupt the sequence of
Thev reinforce the conclusion that the "diarv
is not the clear account of an individual destinv. but
larcelv that of a mood" (17).
Whether the diarV is the
statement ot a sinale mOOd with its own internal
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