TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FOUR
THE LATER NOVELS, TZME AND VOZCE
Xn the previous chapter Crn~anski's use o~ lan~ua~e
in his two eartv novels was examined ~or
relationship to the expression or time.
its
Xt was
concluded that in his rirst novel. Dnevnik 0
earno~evi6u. Crnjanski emphasises the representation o~
simultaneitv between times as thev occur in the mind or
the diarist. and in the second novel the characters
ascribe di~~erent meanin~s to relationships o~ sequence
and duration.
2n both novels characters create
individual time schemes. This ~eature o~ Crnjanski'.
work is embedded in the verv lan~ua~e
he use.. both in
terms or sentence structure and 1n terms o~
narrat1ve
or~anisation.
Crnjanski continues to use .entence
structure 1n similar wavs in h1s two later novels.
He
continues to disrupt normal svntax. to u.e "parcelaci~a
re6enice" (tt~ra~mentat1on
or the sentence" 1). bV
de~errin~ the verb and omittin~ verbs. to disrupt the
seq~ence o~ l1near time and to subordinate action to
character. Howeve.. a more si.ni~1cant
element in hi.
later novels is the presentation o~
the narrat1nc voices
which or~anise the relationships o~ .equence and
duration between events.
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