TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
.e kao da je ta ve.t do~azi .a nekoc
drucoc .veta. Iznuren od brica za pukom.
nije imao .nace da .e za ~enom ni
zap1.a~e (86).
He reoeived the new. that hi. wi~e.
the
Lad~ Da~ina. had died with oomp~ete oa~m.
It .eemed to him that the new. oame ~rom
another wor~d. Exhau.ted bv worries
about the reciment. he did not have the
atrencth to .hed even a tear ~or hi.
wi~e.
The events o~ the adu1.terv and death o~ Da~ina are
.atab~ish.d as temporal. r.~ereno. point.. Oth.r event.
are desorib.d as happ.ninc b.~ore. a~ter. or more
u.ua~l.v. at the same tim. a. her adu~terv and d.ath. In
this s.n.e thev oorr •• pond to what S.vmour Chatman terms \
--k.rn.l..". that is events whioh ohart the dev.~opm.nt o~
the .torv (87).
In Seobe. a1.1. ev.nt. are ord.red in
rel.ation to the.e two .vent.. Thev a~.o ~unction as
what Ro1.and Barth.. t.rm. "indices" o~
val.u. and
oharaoterisation whioh int.crate the 1.iv.s o~
the
charact.rs bevond the temporal. procr.s. o~
the .torv
(88) •
Tim. in the nov.l. procre.... ~ike
a .piral.. in that
it ke.p. returninc to a particu~ar
.vent or point in
time. be~ore oontinuinc ~rom the point o~ view o~
anothep ahapaatep.
The idea of petupn enaap.ulate. the
who1e nove1. There are a number o~ phrase. found at the
be.innina and toward. the end or the nov.1. which ~rame