TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
The whole campaien throueh Lorraine, in
which, at the head or the armv. with his
three hundred picked soldiers, also
foueht the noble Vuk Isakovi~. ended in a
few weeks. The leader Of the vanauard,
Pield Marshal Lieutenant aaron 30han
Leopold Berenklau. took bv assault the
trenches around Mainz. and the town was
surrendered to him. Then Charles of
Lorraine crossed the Rhine with the
remainine rorces. After three davs.
havine exchaneed in all a rew pistol
shots with the French hussars, he entered.
Worms, and in the rain. ~ cloudburst.
without firinc'a sinale rifle, into
Spever. After three davs rest thev
encamped around the town of Saint Louis
and here the situation became critical.
The cannonade lasted for davs, bombs rell
into the camp. the Prench dammed the
river, and it overflowed and flooded the
waaons. horses. cannon, so thev thev
almost drowned in mud. Since thev did
not succeed in takina the town bV storm.
thev skirted round it and arrived at
Strasboure, ~ust when the Prench kine
arrived there.
The observer-narrator specifies that the campaien lasted
"a few weeks". and that the events took place in a
particular sequence when he uses such words and phrases
as "then" and "after three davs".
Time for him is an
index bv which to measure the duration and sequence of
events.
In their personal experience the characters mark
the passaee or time in verv dirferent wavs.
For Vuk the
lona march to the campaian is a period of extreme
boredom which seems eneU •• s,
Stenju6i ad bola u koli.a. ~inilo mu se
kao da ve6 nekoliko dana pada neka kiaa.
ko~oj nema kra~a, u kojo~ se sliva~u sa
njeea ne samo lena i decaf ve6 i bivli
njeeovlivot i ave Ito je VideO. Videvli
iz kola. nad visokim brdima kako pro laze
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